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...reception in the Palace of Congresses banquet hall, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Nikita Khrushchev presented the picture of a man bouncing back in great style from his own Cuban fiasco. In one of his most dazzling displays of personal diplomacy, he seemed relaxed, relieved and philosophical. "Who won and who lost?" he asked reporters. "Reason won. Mankind won because if there hadn't been reason, then there might not have been this reception, and there might not have been any elections in the U.S." Khrushchev even seemed to concede a U.S. missile lead...
...June 18, 1708, at a Philadelphia banquet for John Marshall, one of the three Commissioners in what became known as the XYZ affair, Harper proposed the 13th toast of the evening: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." The remark was later credited to Pinckney and although he never denied it publicly, he did so privately several times...
...Montgomery Street financial district to give him a roaring welcome. He was there to give Dick Nixon a boost in his campaign for Governor; if there was ever any doubt about Ike's enthusiasm for his Vice President, none remained after he spoke at a Cow Palace banquet. "Several months ago in Denmark," said Ike, "I observed that one of the biggest mistakes of my political career was not working harder for Dick Nixon in 1960. I urge all of you, and I urge all Californians, not to make the same mistake this year. Richard Nixon has served...
Scholar of Education. In this tradition, the dean of deans has long been William DeVane. In a poem for a 1960 Yale Daily News banquet honoring DeVane, former Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy (now a White House janizary) described...
...while they talk. During President and Mrs. Kennedy's state visit to Paris in 1961, Jackie was unfolding the story of her life when she asked, "You realize. General, that my family is of French origin?" De Gaulle exclaimed drily: "Well now, so is mine!"* At the same banquet, Jacqueline Kennedy bubbled: "You, General, who have known so many interesting people in your life, tell me, which one had the greatest sense of humor?" De Gaulle's deadpan reply: "Stalin, Madame...