Word: commander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commander in Chief, Jimmy Carter has plunged underwater on a nuclear attack submarine, climbed into the sky in an E-4A Airborne Command Post and descended underground to inspect Strategic Air Command headquarters. Last week the President renewed his military travels by helicoptering with his wife Rosalynn from Savannah, Ga., to the deck of the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower to view a series of combat exercises...
Sadat and Nasser were leading members of the Revolutionary Command Council, which replaced the monarchy in 1952 and established first General Mohammed Naguib and later Nasser himself as Presidents of an Egyptian republic. Sadat writes about his ambivalent attitude toward his fellow revolutionary...
...realized. It was this that made me live with Nasser for eighteen years without ever clashing with him. I was happy to work in any capacity simply because I looked for no personal gain, and never made any demands at all. Whether as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, as secretary-general for the Islamic Congress, as editor-in-chief of al-Gomhouriya, or as Speaker of the National Assembly, I stood by [Nasser] alike in victory or defeat. And this was, perhaps, what made Nasser look around him seventeen years later to realize that there was indeed...
Nasser's attitude changed, however, after the revolution broke out and he took his place at the helm. In 1953, when conflicts rocked the Revolutionary Command Council (to the extent of actually posing a danger to the revolution and the entire future of Egypt), I called on him at home and said...
Nasser was listening very attentively. I went on, "It's only natural for changes to take place once we come to power, but this should never be at the expense of Egypt. We have unanimously elected you chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Therefore, we cannot possibly differ from you. So it should be made clear to all that anyone who can cooperate with you may stay with us, and anyone who cannot may resign ..." But Nasser wouldn't let me finish. Livid with rage, he suddenly interrupted me to object, and burst into an attack as though...