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...Saturday morning, the red and white lights outside Schlesinger's Pentagon office were aglow. White meant he was in; red meant he had visitors (green indicates he is on the phone to the White House). His budget aides were with him, organizing arguments against the Defense Department taking as big a share of Ford's promised $28 billion expense reductions as the President wanted. At 9:45, the green light flashed; Schlesinger had called Ford to ask if he could explain some of the dangers of drastic cuts. Ford agreed...
Nixon relaxes during the afternoons, frequently getting in a round of golf on the course at nearby Camp Pendleton with his aide, Colonel (ret.) Jack Brennan. Pat Nixon, by all visitors' accounts, is aglow-buoyant and relaxed as she oversees Casa Pacifica or putters in her garden. "I'm loving this place," she told a friend not long...
...where Gay wasn't, Jenny telling Briggs about Gay's black eyes, the bandaged stabs on her arm, the bruises on he chest. And Gay was dying of T.B. and wouldn't go see a doctor and Briggs leaned back against the Delac, its door open and insides all aglow in the depth of nothing, and our odds were ruined...
...recent Presidents have relished the perquisites, their aides have liked them even more, which has contributed to the problem. One can recall Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press secretary, ensconced on the fantail of the presidential yacht, his cigar aglow as White House waiters plied his friends with food and drink, and soft music wafted over the waters of Palm Beach. "You'd better enjoy it now," said one observer to Salinger, "because when you go out of office, it's all over." Salinger grinned widely, tapped the ash off his cigar, and replied: "Do I ever know...
Tobacco men are aglow with new optimism. Philip Morris, for example, increased U.S. cigarette sales last year by more than 11%, and is constructing an $80 million factory in Richmond, which it claims will be the world's largest assembler of cigarettes. In addition, the industry has made a notable saving on its advertising budget. Even though cigarette makers increased their nonbroadcast advertising by some $133 million in 1971, their total advertising expenditure declined by $78 million...