Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford was scheduled to speak to a group of textile manufacturers in San Francisco on March 26, 1976, and Baker talked him into indicating his willingness to get tough on Chinese textiles. Kissinger's deputies were aghast, and Baker suspected that the Secretary of State would call Air Force One to have the offensive language deleted from the President's speech. Baker arranged to be notified if Kissinger tried such a ploy. When word came, Baker called the plane too. Arguing again for the President's political interests against China's hurt feelings, Baker had the lines reinserted...
Even so, Baker didn't win them all. Besides selecting Dan Quayle, which appears to have been a Bush solo, the candidate often free-lanced by adopting a nonconfrontational technique. "Baker would call him on the plane and get him to change some line or another," says a Baker associate. "Bush would say, 'O.K., Jimmy, right,' and then go and do what he wanted to do anyway...
...flat-out rebelled. "Once, when Bush thought he could go the kinder-gentler route exclusively, we asked Jimmy to read him the riot act again," says Roger Ailes, Bush's media adviser. "That was one of the few times I've ever seen him blow up. He said, 'You call him yourselves. You're not the ones who have to carry that message and have him say, 'If you're so smart, Jimmy, how come I'm the one who's Vice President...
...evolution of the Sino-Soviet relationship has followed a tortuous course. A decade of comradeship shattered in 1960 over China's resentment at forever being expected to let Moscow call the tune, and over Mao's charge that Nikita Khrushchev was diluting Marxist-Leninist dogma. Border talks in 1978 began to melt the two-decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second...
...wouldn't presume to call myself a commentator. That suggests having answers...