Baby It's Cold Out There
Tonight it
is going to be cold if you are a Miami native or an iguana. For the second night in a row it will be in the
40’s just after sun up which is not beach weather or particularly good for all
the stuff grown in South Florida agricultural areas
On January
19th, 1977, it snowed in Miami, and the January 20th,
1977 Miami Herald’s headline was about the snow in Miami which didn’t last and
the battle the farmers to save their crops which were winter vegetables. The Inauguration of Jimmy Carter made the
front page below the fold and was almost an afterthought to all the shivering
Miamians.
I was sent
to hand deliver a grant modification to Atlanta on the 19th which would have
been a really plum assignment except that it was a lot colder in Atlanta. I think I got the assignment because I had an
almost new winter coat and everybody else with more seniority passed because it
was so cold.
The
Department of Labor Regional Office in Atlanta was celebrating when I got to
the office. Almost all of them had
worked with Jimmy Carter in one way or another while he was Governor of Georgia
and it would be good for business. Ray
Marshall became the new Secretary of Labor and all sorts of DOL programs were
expanded and business was good until the dew was off the rose with sky
rocketing interest rates, stubborn unemployment, energy problems and hostages
in Iran.
Ronnie replaced Jimmy, but the headlines are similar even today after almost forty years: Iran, Energy Policy, Jobs, and the Weather.
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