Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decades the evenings in the capital were enriched with stories like the one about Franklin Roosevelt's coaxing Ambassador Joseph Kennedy out of a vacation and then with great relish firing him. F.D.R. was a real gossip, demanding every morning the tantalizing doings of the night before. "I had dinner with [Senator Authur] Capper and he was snapping garters all night," chortled an aide one time. Roosevelt roared, eyes bright. "Is he still doing that? he asked, recalling that the old boy was on the prowl back when Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 20 years earlier...
...while the Saudis offered the U.S. their million-barrel-a-day oil production bonus-or "Fourth of July present," as King Khalid described it at the time. Kuwait was brought in on the deal to make use of the abilities of its representative on the current U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara...
...Arabs' carrot-and-stick diplomatic approach caught the Carter Administration off guard. The President's ambassador-at-large in the Middle East Robert Strauss, mistakenly reported last month that the Saudis were downplaying any possible link between their gift of increased oil production and diplomatic progress on the Palestinian issue. During his appointed trip to Strauss Riyadh, felt in that fact, the the newly Fahd was deliberately distinguishing between the two issues by introducing them separately and without any reference to "linkage." A U.S. expert concluded later: "It was classic Bedouin hospitality to avoid controversial subjects during...
...Administration set to work trying to soothe Israeli anxieties, which of course, are shared by many American Jews. The President telephoned Menachem Begin to congratulate him on his 66th birthday. He invited Israeli Ambassador Ephraim Evron to the White House for a working lunch. He assured the Israelis that American policy toward their country had not changed...
...Nicholas Henderson, new British Ambassador to Washington, on changing customs: "Now, I see, the main sport is jogging. When I served here before, the main sport was baiting President Truman...