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The snag came after Air Force General John Lavelle admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that he ordered the falsification of records of unauthorized bombing missions while under Abrams' command in Viet Nam. Lavelle was demoted to lieutenant general and forced to retire for his cavalier transgressions. In...
THE American vice presidency has become the most important do-nothing job in the world. In this century, fully one-third of the elected Vice Presidents have, through tragedy or election in their own right, ascended eventually to the White House. With the odds heavily favoring his reelection, Richard Nixon...
He is caught. With a cavalier imprudence he has given the camel's hair coat in the back seat to a girl he hardly knows, and the girl's mother calls the police. He goes to a youth detention house, does a few months' time, then returns...
This cavalier dismissal of love was typical of the man: he refused to take love seriously, life seriously, himself seriously. He felt life as deeply as any other modern poet, but forced life to meet him on his own terms. Here was his strength, yes, but here also was his...
Peccadillos. In Congress, Powell's record of achievement-especially as Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee-was extraordinary, but his flagrant nepotism and cronyism, his public peccadillos, the charge of income tax evasion against him and his cavalier disregard for his Congressional colleagues' sensitivities finally led...