Word: confidantes
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Certainly, no site seems immune to the peculiar magic of Singer's imagination. In The Gentleman from Cracow, a tiny town is given unaccustomed luxury and then led to ruin by a wealthy young man who is really "a creature covered with scales, with an eye in his chest...
That amiable scene obscured some harsh realities. Despite Reagan's optimism, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Senator and Reagan Confidant Paul Laxalt and House Minority Leader Bob Michel had asked for the White House meeting to deliver a message that was grim, no matter how gently they phrased it...
Kennedy set up the recording system in July 1962, and it remained in place until his assassination in November 1963, capturing some 600 conversations in that period. So secretly was the system installed and operated that even Theodore C. Sorensen, J.F.K.'s White House Counsel and longtime confidant, did...
New Court is an aggressive venture-capital firm that has some $200 million invested in fledgling American companies. Last year its return on current investment of $17 million was 35%. In July, its American chairman John P. Birkelund, 51, asked the Rothschilds for more control over the firm. Instead, the...
Although he handled himself well under questioning, Stockman remains, in effect, on probation. While 32 of the 53 Republican Senators signed a letter to Reagan supporting Stockman and pleading, "We need him as part of the team," Senator Paul Laxalt, the President's confidant, significantly did not. Moreover, a...