Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word leaked out that Big Brother had been wiretapping Don's phone for more than a year. The White House called it a security measure, but nobody believed that for a minute. Dick was simply protecting his blind side. At the same time, Don revealed that the president even refused to talk to him: "John Mitchell is a man that I was delegated--they designated that I should talk to him about any matter pertaining to--in other words, I never talk to my brother about anything and John Mitchell was the man I was assigned to." Nixon had stonewalled...
...break easily is that based on loyalty, since loyalty comes only after an accumulation of other feelings, and must be earned. Friendships among nations, when they mean anything, are based on loyalty, because loyalty incorporates a sense of history. At the same time, loyalty, which is often as blind as love and justice, can also be dangerous. Harry Truman stood by his fellow Missourian, Harry Vaughan, a shady military aide who consorted with influence peddlers throughout Truman's Administration. Ike had his Sherman Adams, Carter his Lance. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss," Dean...
Although the Ronald Reagan Trust was supposed to be strictly blind, it seems that the Governor took an active interest during his final months in office in the purchase of the Santa Barbara ranch. It was opposed by the financial experts. But, as Dart explains, "he just had to have this one. It was love at first sight." Adds Wilson: "He told us that he always had made money on his real estate and challenged us as trustees to prove that we always had made profitable investments for him. That we couldn't do." At the ranch, Reagan...
...Europeans are strangely blind to their own blunders...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who proclaimed that "Anything Helen Keller is for, I am for.") Yet while doing justice to Helen's great achievements, Lash does not avoid the darker sides of her life--the split with Dr. James Anagnos, the director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind; Helen's failure to find gray tones among the blacks and whites of morality; and her eagerness to hit the vaudeville circuit to support herself and her efforts for the American Foundation for the Blind. "Why do you do this," a reporter asked her in the middle...