Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from his longtime advocacy of tariff cutting (the U.S. "cannot be protectionist and prosperous"), Johnson is not known for strong expressions of economic philosophy. Much of his economic counsel in the past has come from fairly conservative businessmen and advisers. Among them: Robert Anderson, a Texan who was Dwight...
Divorce Revealed. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 35, White House speechwriter and Presidential confidant: by Camilla Palmer Sorensen, 35: on grounds of "uninterrupted separation"; after 14 years of marriage, three children; in Fairfax County, Va. on Aug. 9. The Sorensens, both Unitarians, have lived apart since before Kennedy's inauguration, but...
Toward Despair. Late that afternoon, Kennedy wearily returned to the Ritz, called Jackie and told her for the first time how serious the situation was. Then he made another visit to the hospital, returned to dine alone at the hotel, called before he headed for the hospital again. His brother...
In 1955 he began a career as political insider, first as campaign manager for President Juscelino Kubitschek, later as confidant to President Jãnio Quadros. Meanwhile, he edited A Noite, the government-owned paper, put out a magazine singlehanded, then became a political columnist before taking control last December...
Champagne in Streams. One major service Clemens performed for the Russians was to recruit a former SS colleague, Heinz Felfe. Cool and articulate, Defendant Felfe, 45, told the judges that he too was an ardent Nazi, had worked his way up into Heinrich Himmler's state security bureau. He...