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...thoughts on foreign events, he was keeping them to himself. He had no comment on the protracted SALT negotiations or on the suspended Middle East talks. He concluded his summit with remarks that were curiously inappropriate at a time when the Vietnamese were conquering Cambodia. Said the President: "We have observed with interest and gratification that in the last few years there has been an enhancement in the normalization of relationships among the nations of the world. Former enemies have become friends. Potential enemies have sought to avoid violence by close consultations and negotiations." Next day, when reporters asked...
...incident would cause only low-level comment if Billy Carter were seldom seen, like Sam Houston Johnson, ne'er-do-well brother of Lyndon, or Donald Nixon, fumbling recipient of the Hughes loan back in 1956. But Billy has been elevated to special status by none other than his brother Jimmy ("a lot of substance to Billy"). Indeed, not since the Kennedys have we had a President who has so involved his family in official duties, sending wife, sons, daughter, mother, sister, cousin off to represent him. Some of Billy's earlier rednecking. Sister Ruth Stapleton...
Other Kennedy School officials yesterday refused to say whether Dukakis had accepted a position at the University. Graham T. Allison, dean of the Kennedy School, could not be reached for comment last night...
...declined to comment last night, said last week that he doubted the Corporation will ever vote on changing the name, adding that he would prefer to see Kennedy School officials draw up a policy on gifts, instead of looking at such questions on an "ad hoc basis...
...other Corporation fellows, Robert Shenton and Charles P. Slichter '45, refused to comment yesterday on the issue...