"A friendship with the older, steadier Bush conferred a legitimacy on Clinton that he had partly squandered in his final years in office," Gibbs and Duffy wrote.
These smart alecks who know how to split atoms and splice genes need to be put in their place by older steadier hands.
"He's just good old steady Jimmy, doing a job".
Things have improved recently, but one man has been his old steady self all season.
(Asked how his new entrepreneurial Web life compared with his old, steady job, he said, "It's a challenge").
Mr. Smith wanted his old, steady job back, the one he felt certain he did well, and the one for which he was justly compensated.
"After the current governor, they are going to find an old, steady, experienced hand good to work with," said Charles T. Manatt, who served as both state and national Democratic leader while Mr. Brown was first governor.
So now, "The Stepford Wives" has been supplanted by "The Sopranos," Connecticut has a governor named Jodi and is trying to revive its old steady habits, and New Jersey is showing almost daily that the new New Jersey is just plain old New Jersey.
I always tell the story about girls coming into the dance hall, walking past us and taking a turn with some other better-looking guys, and then at the end of the evening there's old steady Eddie, who's not flashy, but he's the guy you know you want to take home to Mom and Dad.
If Knutson were a physicist he would be talking about the old steady state theory.
