Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Callaghan's authority now seriously damaged, potential successors are already jockeying for position. His own favorite is former Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who bravely defended Callaghan in Brighton as the party's "greatest asset." But if the leftists succeed next year in gaining control of the selection process-as they nearly did last week -the front runner will be Tony Benn...
Nixon and De Gaulle met in the Oval Office. There was about De Gaulle a melancholy air of withdrawal, of already being a spectator at his own actions-a harbinger of his imminent retirement. He called to mind a story told by West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger on the basis of which he predicted that De Gaulle would not serve much longer. According to Kiesinger, De Gaulle had said Franco-German relations: "We and the Germans have gone through a lot together. We have traversed forests surrounded by wild animals. We have crossed the deserts parched...
...through the corridors of the modern Sava Center, where the I.M.F. sessions were held. Cecil de Strycker, governor of Belgium's central bank, confided: 'The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain any more.' Many delegates joined in what Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, aptly described as a kind of 'competitive gloominology...
...when I served for a short time as a consultant to President Kennedy, he asked me to brief the crusty West German Chancellor Adenauer on the military ideas of the young Administration. Adenauer had his doubts about the strategic doctrines that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was developing. At one point he interrupted me in the full flight of my oratory to ask how I knew what I was presenting was true. I had been briefed by a general, I responded. Had the general worn a uniform? the Chancellor wanted to know. When I allowed that I did not remember...
Since 1965 he served in various administrative posts including associate dean for student affairs, assistant and associate provost, and chancellor...