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"I got bear-hugged by the President," beamed Jack Valenti last week. Valenti, now the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, used to experience such cordial acts all the time, when he was Johnson's confidant. After his White House days, such moments did not occur that...
"When the Communists decide they're going to do it, they'll do it. Period," declared a senior American intelligence official in Saigon. It is hard to argue with that grim assessment. Last week nearly 75% of South Viet Nam's territory and 40% of its citizens...
Party Rules. "The Kennedy candidacy idea comes up in every conversation about 1976," says New Jersey Democratic Chairman James Dugan. Phoenix Attorney William Mahoney Jr., a Kennedy confidant, echoes the feelings of many Democrats: "I see no chance whatever that he will campaign for the nomination. But he could literally...
That assessment, by a longtime confidant of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's, seemed to describe the complex problem facing U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last week as he stepped up the tempo of his shuttle diplomacy in quest of a second-stage disengagement agreement.
In the past few months, Gerald Parsky, 32, seems to have emerged out of nowhere to become one of official Washington's brightest new Wunderkinder-and the youngest Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ever. Parsky serves Treasury Secretary William Simon as confidant, emissary and all-round Mr. Fixit. He...