Word: confidantes
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Expectable in almost every other way, the nomination nonetheless provoked an unexpected reaction, arousing more opposition in the Senate than any other court appointment since 1930?when Herbert Hoover's choice of John J. Parker was rejected by a margin of two votes. But Parker was denied the post because...
It was rare tribute from Charles de Gaulle, but deserved. A professor of literature until World War II, Pompidou has spent 24 years as a Gaullist friend and confidant, an adviser in De Gaulle's political triumphs, the editor of his memoirs. In the same years, and with little...
Contrite Candor. Mentioned in another AID scandal was Max M. Kampelman, 47, a Washington lawyer who served as Humphrey's legislative assistant for six years and is still regarded as a close political confidant of the Vice President's. Representing a Minneapolis company called Napco Industries Inc., Kampelman...
One of the strongest threads in the fabric of President Johnson's Administration winds back to the New and Fair Deal days of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Those years yielded in time a national unity on matters of foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace...
Nine years ago, Podhoretz' friend and literary confidant, Norman Mailer, brashly announced in Advertisements for Myself that he was embarking on "a revolution in the consciousness of our time." He predicted that his writing would have "the deepest influence of any work being done by an American novelist in...