Word: counsellors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter asked if Angola would also be discussed, Brezhnev replied with a shrug: "For me there is nothing to talk about on Angola. Angola isn't my country, after all." Kissinger interjected: "It will certainly be discussed." Said Brezhnev with a grin: "You discuss it with [State Department Counsellor Helmut] Sonnenfeldt...
...rumors messed up Ford's announcement plans. By Saturday night the inquiries were so persistent that Ford decided he must inform Schlesinger and Colby that they were through. "It was the humane thing to do," a top White House aide later explained. Presidential Counsellor John Marsh called Schlesinger to ask him to meet with Ford the next morning, without explaining why. He also left a similar message for Colby. Nov. 2. As Colby sat down with Ford promptly at 8 a.m., the President tried to be friendly. He conceded that he was moving abruptly in asking Colby to step down...
Relaxing aboard the Spirit of 76 one night in November 1970, President Richard Nixon turned to Donald Rumsfeld, a White House counsellor, and said: "Rummy, one day you're going to be making these decisions. " Rumsfeld began to demur. "No," insisted Nixon, "one day you're going to be President...
...when Napolitano tried to get an entry visa, he was told to wait, and wait he did. As the date the trip was supposed to start rolled around, Hoffmann and Lange tried to find out from the State Department what the problem was. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, counsellor to the State Department, finally let Hoffmann know...
...look at that Reagan committee," meaning at the group's observance of campaign laws. Already some friction has developed among presidential aides wanting control of the campaign. Callaway has been told to report to Donald Rumsfeld, Ford's White House chief of staff, rather than to Presidential Counsellor Robert Hartmann, whose duties have included political matters. Hartmann aides are seething...