Word: commandant
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Certainly it is not hard to picture Percy as vice-president, since the longtime senator invites comparisons to current second-in-command George Bush. Like Bush, Percy's opinions on a number of issues have, to use the vice president's expression, evolved. Before Reagan's victory, Percy remained an adamant opponent to the Kemp-Roth tax policies. Since 1981, he's been a happy supply-sider. He's spoken favorably on the nuclear freeze, only to work against it in the Senate. His positions on arms control measures and Soviet-American summits similarly defy consistency. As a Simon advertisement...
...second-in-command at PepsiCo Incorporated, one of the nation's most successful businesses, is expected to take up a tenured professorship at Harvard this spring...
...last great test as a campaigner. Shaken by a stumbling performance in the first presidential debate two weeks earlier in Louisville, Ronald Reagan had to show millions of Americans watching Sunday night's face-off in Kansas City that he was in command of his office, in control of his facts and not addled by age. Once again, the Gipper was up to the task...
There was an element of condescension in Mondale's stressing just a little too much the implication that the President was not in command of the material and was not sharp enough. I think he overdid that, and I think he was wrong. I think that out of this debate Reagan emerges looking somewhat more presidential, and Mondale looks like somebody who has learned a number of speeches, which were presented with reasonable eloquence but which really didn't hang together. Mondale tried to get both to the left and the right of President Reagan and thus provided...
...private Kremlin conference room of Konstantin Chernenko has been firmly off limits to Western journalists since the Soviet President took command of the Communist Party in February. But last week the room's large double doors unexpectedly swung open. Responding to written questions submitted five days earlier by Washington Post Moscow Bureau Chief Dusko Doder, Soviet officials summoned the journalist to the Kremlin on a half-hour's notice. During a 20-min. interview, Chernenko, 73, looking relaxed and ruddy-cheeked, sounded more ready than in the past to accommodate the prospect of new dialogue with...