Word: damn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps most damaging to morale at State is the meddling of White House hard-liners in the minutiae of diplomacy. "You've got a situation where very strong people are debating about the nickles and dimes of everyday decisions," says a Shultz intimate. "These damn disputes are distorting the whole policy." Through it all, Shultz has remained relatively serene. He supported, for example, both the Kissinger and McFarlane appointments. Aides say Shultz reserves most of his resentment for the policymakers at the Pentagon. His relationship with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who once worked under him at Bechtel Group...
...missile, the White House was skeptical at first. But by the end of June, after Reagan's own speeches failed to galvanize support for his policies, the idea began to sound better. "We're going to have to build a consensus on Capitol Hill damn soon," said a senior Reagan aide. "We had to try something different...
...brusquely confrontational, but at least they were consistent: he was equally hard on everyone. "I have worked for John McMullan and I have worked against John McMullan," roasted David Kraslow, publisher of the Miami News, in a McMullan testimonial last month, "and, believe me, there's not a damn bit of difference...
...your self around reporters, who would probably offer to buy you a drink to loosen you up. A sergeant said this was the way to respond to all three threats: "No, thank you. No, thank you. No comment." Just about all the grunts agreed they would say what they damn well pleased, but they would keep their names to themselves...
...posture of a T square. Standing there on Duval Street, where most of the bars are, how you longed to grow your hair. And yet there was the chief of police telling reporters, "It feels good to look down Duval and see those clean-cut men instead of those damn dirty hippies we always...