Word: chitchatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer began with folksy chitchat, assuring his readers that both his mother and brother Billy are doing just fine, thank you. But soon he turned serious-and critical-about the man who took his job away. In a three-page letter sent to former aides and Cabinet members, Jimmy Carter broke his 5%-month silence on his successor, although he never mentioned Ronald Reagan by name. Attacking the Administration's budget cuts as "ill-advised," he warned that "an enormous transfer of Government benefits is now taking place from the very poor to the very rich." Predicted the former...
...journalism." The palace won an injunction from Britain's high court forbidding Regan from "disclosing, divulging or making use of the contents of the tapes of the telephone conversations or publishing transcripts of them." Mid rumors that British papers wanted to publish the royal chitchat, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher denounced the transcripts as "despicable" in the House of Commons...
...question is no, but it ought not necessarily put the worriers at ease. Reagan's soul is his own, yet what sort of soul is it? For those who have observed Reagan lo these many years, the answer is clearly and consistently a most conservative soul, notwithstanding the formulaic chitchat about his having once been a hemophiliac liberal, which is simply a device for implying that policies aside, his heart is still with the people. A more precise question is: What sort of mind has Reagan? How intelligent is he? But with "natural" men, intelligence is not so readily definable...
There is plenty of time, however, for substance: four years after Jan. 20. And if backslapping and dinner chitchat will not by themselves bring down the inflation rate, they can help pass legislation designed to do that. The ability to create an aura of cheerful optimism, manipulate symbols and establish smooth personal relations with allies and adversaries is a vital asset for a President. Ronald Reagan proved last week that he possesses it in abundance, and he will surely need it in the battles that lie ahead when the honey moon is over...
...lower than lobbyists, far lower than journalists. Of course, parties are places for the conduct of business, not discourse. That is just as well. Henry James romantically regarded Washington as the "city of conversation." It would be interesting to see what he would make of the arcane political chitchat that fills lunch hours at Sans Souci and the Madison...