Word: beschloss
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...when the Russians shot down Gary Powers' U2 spy plane, it was the Secretary of State, not President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who claimed a weather-research plane had gone off course. "So intense was the desire to not have the President lie," says presidential historian Michael Beschloss, "to not break the bond of trust with the American people, it was left to others. Eisenhower never spoke an untruth." Of course, Ike was never the focus of an investigation by a grand jury, either...
Caught in a testosterone battle between football and sex, ABC punts Prez, returns to a pre-season game in Mexico 23 minutes after the address and a brief commentary from studly historian Michael Beschloss...
...editions assess his eight years in office? He is already so sensitive to the question and what it implies, aides say, that the mere sight of the word legacy in print is enough to trigger an eruption of the famous Clinton temper. He knows well that, as historian Michael Beschloss notes, "most Presidents are really not in the heroic mode." To be one of the greats requires surmounting a crisis on the scale of the Civil War or the Great Depression, or having ideas strong enough to change the way an entire nation thinks...
...history's practical joke," says Beschloss, that a man who so admires activism became President in the tranquil, prosperous '90s. Political survival has required him to tack left and right, bending to the times, and diluting the power of any convictions he may claim to have. But Clinton believes he can still be the one who turns the nation's face to its future. "To me, it could hardly be more exciting for the United States, because things are going well for us. We know there are challenges on the horizon, and yet we have the luxury of meeting them...
...that option was considered, it was not reflected on the tapes Beschloss included in Taking Charge. In fact, I couldn't find any reference at all to my speeches. Then I noticed the date of the final tape--Aug. 29, 1964. Of course! That was a few weeks before I arrived in Washington. The references to my speeches must be in Volume II. As I envision it, L.B.J. is alone in the Oval Office during one of the darkest days of the war in Vietnam. He is looking for inspiration. Idly, he picks up a manuscript from a pile...