Word: buren
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Nine years out of office, Kissinger has maintained a luster rarely matched by any former Secretary of State since Martin Van Buren made the leap to the White House in 1837. Even without his Air Force jet, Kissinger travels with the aura of power. He alerts the embassies. Bodyguards watch over him. The maid at London's posh Claridge's covers the floor with towels because Kissinger, she says, does not like to walk barefoot on hotel carpets. Arriving in Paris, Kissinger is invited to the Elysee Palace for a chat with President Francois Mitterrand; in Peking, Deng Xiaoping suggests...
...Cleveland Browns coach on opening day of 1950, when the survivors of the disbanded All-America Football Conference were being called amateurs unfit to share a field with the great N.F.L. champion Philadelphia Eagles. "Just think," Brown said drily, "in a minute you'll get to touch Steve Van Buren." Cleveland 35, Philadelphia...
...last sitting Vice President to win the presidency was Martin Van Buren in 1836; the only two-term Vice President to do so was John Adams, who succeeded George Washington...
...moved to second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...
...University of Wisconsin, with 70. Harvard was a poor second, with 49. When Murray-Blessing separated the experts into categories such as the Ivy League and the Big Ten, they found insignificant variations in assessments. For instance, the Ivy League rated Chester Arthur lower and Martin Van Buren higher than did the folks in the Big Ten. Only their mothers could care...