Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebozo assiduously avoids any contact with the press that might suggest self-promotion at Nixon's expense, always refuses to discuss politics. A reporter recently suggested a White House appointment and Rebozo snorted: "We've never even discussed it, and I don't expect to." His friendship with Nixon goes back to 1951, when Florida's Senator George Smathers asked Rebozo to entertain Nixon, a fellow freshman, at Key Biscayne. Rebozo took him fishing and remembers, "We just hit it off." The friendship developed, as did Nixon's habit of flying to Florida...
Doubtless Humphrey will discuss these points in his memoirs, which Doubleday plans to publish next year. In the meantime, Humphrey will probably lecture at the University of Minnesota, lay plans to replace McCarthy in the Senate if the donnish dove does not run again in 1970, and spend the next two years helping Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien recoup the party's $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 campaign debt...
Fallaci: It means that while I'll go to hell, you'll go to paradise, Mr. Hefner. There, among the saints and martyrs, together with your Bunnies, you'll go to discuss the sex of the angels...
These men must be given the credit they deserve for removing the financial motivation of decision-making from most discussions. If it were well-known, student protest would be much more dangerous. When they do discuss financial decisions, administrators cherish the impression that policy decisions are dictated by economic necessity. Actually, the policy decisions are made, then the financial criteria are set up accordingly. For instance, administrators usually counter the arguments of reformers by claiming that this or that change "would be too expensive." Thus, we must raise tuition, but, they say, we "can't afford" to raise scholarships...
...policy of 1948 and the modern Roy Innis separationist philosophy of 1968." Retorts Innis: "This society is racist and won't change." Nevertheless, the two have some grounds for agreement. "Roy and I," says Haddad, "are not such purists that we can't isolate a problem and discuss it. We can both agree, for instance, on the need for developing black institutions." They plan to start a journalism training program for Negro and Puerto Rican youngsters. And they both share an enthusiasm for an uphill enterprise: New York City is not notably hospitable to struggling young newspapers...