Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other mistake is still too sensitive to discuss in detail. It happened much later, and sometimes I wonder if it cost my man the presidency. It had to do with a lie that I neglected to tell the press at a time when not only John Marttilla's guerillas, who were masterminding Udall's campaign, but even Ellen McCormack had figured out how to play the media for all they were worth. And that was a lot in 1976. But more about Ellen McCormack later...
Last fall, after hearing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller discuss the subject with concern, Senator Barry Goldwater told newsmen that Soviet agents had infiltrated the offices of seven Senators. In the ensuing furor, 52 Congressmen endorsed a letter asking Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, to look into the charges. Church, in turn, asked the FBI to investigate...
Church, however, ignored the secret report. Preoccupied with his own investigation of U.S. intelligence operations, he seized upon the other report from Kelley to announce that the "allegations" about Soviet spying had been "put to rest." His committee did not even discuss the Soviet electronic "bug" that fell out of a chair in the House Foreign Affairs Committee room...
...meeting at the plush Bay Point Yacht and Country Club, near Panama City, Fla. As most of the negotiators-including executives of Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard of California, the four American partners in Aramco-made for their private jets at the conclusion of the meeting, they refused to discuss what price the Saudis would pay for the 40% of Aramco that they do not yet own. At week's end the only formal announcement Aramco made was that the major issues in the transfer of ownership had been resolved, but that a further meeting of the legal...
...polite, middle-aged, slow-talking gentleman cornered me to discuss his model train collection. I escaped off the train and down a long dark passageway which led to the red line and a Quincy train...