Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only the first round in a long game of negotiations. Moreover, the Soviets have a tradition of testing new U.S. Presidents. Washington had anticipated a Kremlin rejection of its proposals, but apparently miscalculated the mood and intention of the Russian leaders. Thus Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev's almost hostile veto of the U.S. proposals came as a shock. His frosty attitude and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's sarcastic comments at a Moscow press conference suggested U.S.-Soviet relations had plunged to the lowest level since the start of detente...
This double-barreled statement was Carter's rationale both for his people-to-people style as President and for its international version, which could be called airwave diplomacy. In effect, he was telling Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that he would keep on castigating the Russians for suppressing human rights and telling Americans about foreign policy as it takes shape...
...much fuel per person as West Germans, who have roughly comparable living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger hired them in his typically low-key way. Often it was just a telephone call: "How quickly can you get over here?" George Hall made it so quickly that he has not yet had time to turn in his ID card and parking permit...
...exhilarating but wearying work. Schlesinger's people regularly put in twelve-to 14-hour days-like the boss. Late one recent evening, a reporter happened to meet Energy Staffer Dave Freeman in the Executive Office Building's deserted hall. "Jimmy says you can go home now," cracked the newsman. "Yeah," replied Freeman wearily, "but Jim didn...
...Schlesinger is quite convinced that his job of creating a national energy policy is indeed doable, if for no other reason than that he has dedicated his considerable intellect to it. After all, he has already been the nation's chief nuclear administrator, spymaster and boss of the Pentagon-though he has never been a physicist, a spook or even a soldier...