Word: beds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson's case just may be different. "Of course they stole that election," said one former aide. "That's the way they did it down there. In 1941, when Lyndon ran the first time for the Senate, he went to bed one night thinking he was 5,000 votes ahead of W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, and he woke up next morning 10,000 votes behind. He learned a thing or two between...
...half asleep when I heard some comings and goings. Amy came into the bedroom, and I asked her who it was. She said, 'It's the King.' It was King Hussein-Jimmy had taken him to see Amy in her room. She was propped up in bed reading a book." But one White House visitor, former Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, when asked by the President whether he would like to drop in on Amy, displayed foolhardy courage. "No thanks," he said, thereby not improving the atmosphere of an already chilly meeting...
...through magazines and books, sometimes gets eight hours of sleep a night, presides over quiet dinners in his Georgetown home. His flop-eared hound Tyler has developed an incurable fondness for the main swimming pool on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico hills and also his master's warm bed, the instant Kissinger vacates it in the morning. Private Citizen Henry Kissinger has a trick back like millions of other Americans; he also has income tax worries, difficulties with his credit card and is approacinng with some misgivings the day he becomes a homeowner...
...keep the muscles from going all slack and the blood from settling in legs and feet and to keep the joints from becoming stiff. For people who are not in shape, getting off a long flight is like a convalescent's getting up from a long time in bed...
...defensive, Mischa has stepped up "Lothario" operations, whereby handsome agents lure lonely Bonn government secretaries into bed and, ultimately, into East German service. He also takes advantage of West German unemployment by trying to recruit jobless people who might one day become useful sources. Thousands of unemployed computer technicians, data analysts, engineers and journalists have been offered jobs in innocuous-sounding "research" firms that turned out to be East German intelligence-gathering fronts. Many of the job seekers patriotically report the ploy. In a classic counterintelligence maneuver, some of Mischa's supposed recruits may have been "turned" into double...