Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equivalent, the Office of Policy Development, he was one of a handful of aides who could walk into the Oval Office without an appointment. Within a year of the Inauguration, however, his operational influence began to fade. Though an inveterate draftsman of organization charts, Meese was disorganized. Those he chose for staff positions were considered weak and ineffectual. But he was still Reagan's closest ideological soul mate, valued for his unswerving loyalty and his ability to reflect the President's political instincts...
...decade later, the war in Viet Nam should have taught us that such an expression of North Vietnamese imperialism could not have taken place without the massive support of the U.S.S.R. Yet we chose not to take the issue to the Soviet Union or even, in a meaningful way, to Hanoi. We chose, instead, to tangle ineffectually with the puppets, rather than the puppetmasters...
...some, this activity, which took me to about 40 states, had the appearance of a run at the nomination; a Haig-for-President committee was formed in Washington. Although I was not consulted by the people involved, I did nothing to interfere with their right to support anyone they chose. But I had no expectation that I would be President and had repeatedly said so in public and private. Of all the truths that a public man can speak in American life, that is the one least likely to be believed, so I was not especially surprised that Reagan...
...true that Nixon chose not to avail himself of the impeachment process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically, economically and emotionally by a protracted impeachment process, redound to Nixon's discredit...
...Tulsa jury chose a different interpretation. It sided with Guinn, and the court awarded her $390,000, more than the Collinsville congregation's entire proceeds for six years. "A wrong was made right," said a pleased Guinn. As for the church, Elder Roy Witten said, "If Marian were to come back tomorrow, we would welcome her with open arms and the angels in heaven would join with...