Word: cordiality
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Kissinger's dominance of foreign affairs has produced dire strain between him and the Department of State. No one at State bothers any longer to describe relations between Kissinger and Secretary Rogers as cordial. One State official complains: "Making decisions secretly and at the highest level has always tended to cut out contributions based on specific, regional expertise, and this is happening more frequently and seriously than ever before." The post that Kissinger fills was created by John Kennedy when he became impatient with the cumbersome State Department; he called State "a bowl of Jell-O." Nixon has continued...
...prevailed. They called him the "Archbishop" in the cloakrooms, and he resented it. Despite his close association with Southern Democrats throughout his House career, McCormack was also a strong advocate of civil rights legislation. He once denounced a Mississippi Democrat on the floor for his bigotry. He was always cordial toward the Jewish community, and his first appointment to the Naval Academy was a Jewish youth: some of his constituents called him "Rabbi John...
This was a subdued and thoughtful Johnson, talking slowly and occasionally eloquently about the tragic, cosmic events surrounding John Kennedy's assassination, his own dealings with the Kennedys and his assumption of power after Dallas. He described his relations with J.F.K. as "friendly, cordial, but not personally intimate." Johnson conveyed the impression that he and Kennedy carried on a professional and political partnership, carefully adding: "We were not like brothers; we were not constant companions." He persuasively denied reports-by J.F.K.'s secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, for one-that Kennedy planned to replace him as vice-presidential candidate...
They were never needed. Most peacekeeping was handled by D.C. police-whose relations with demonstrators remained remarkably cordial all day-and New Mcbe marshals, many of whom had also been marshals at the November 15 demonstration...
Even after the Six-Day War of 1967, when many Arab nations blamed the U.S. for their humiliating defeat by Israel, Jordan's King Hussein continued to maintain cordial relations with Washington. His friendship was rewarded with arms, economic aid and occasional intercession to help his beleaguered government resist pressures from Israel, the Soviet Union and Egypt, as well as the Palestinian guerrillas. Last week, however, Hussein's volatile country was boiling again, and the force that inadvertently set it abubble was American...