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...House aide, and Powell, the press secretary, dress as they please, ridicule pretense, joke incessantly, talk back to the boss, shun lunch at Sans Souci and rarely turn up at social functions; Jordan wears a black tie as if it were a noose. The pair are the wonder and dismay of Establishment Washington. They are country boys who have come so far, so fast, that the red clay of their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than...
Following the Carter-Assad talks, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance briefed Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon in London. Allon expressed dismay at "the accumulating effect of various expressions by American leaders." Vance assured Allon that the U.S. was not planning to impose a solution on the Middle East, but merely wanted to "help facilitate" the process of peacemaking. Allon was not mollified. The Israelis fear that the President already has a peace plan clearly in mind-and that it calls for Israeli withdrawal from virtually all the occupied territory...
...Broad Dismay. Howard ("Bo") Callaway, President Ford's former campaign manager, said Nixon had "shown a contriteness that I had not expected." To Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Rick Shelby, Nixon was "candid and forthright about the mistakes he obviously made. We saw a side of Nixon we'd never seen before." Norfolk Tavern Owner Foster Strickland summed up the mixed feelings: "If he had a flat tire, I'd stop and help him fix it, but I don't think I would ever vote...
There was broad dismay that the TV spectacle was motivated mainly by money. Millions wished that Watergate and Nixon would simply go away. "I hope we can keep this man caged up in San Clemente," said former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Mark Hogan. "He's a scary...
...Eaton Place for dinner (and Rose marveled at the chair which would support the King's posterior). There was Lady Marjorie going off to America in a ship called the Titanic. There were Richard's financial problems, Mrs. Bridges' pots of tea, Hudson's growing dismay at a changing world, and Hazel's pained middle-class presence in a household of extremes. There were also suffragettes and soldiers, flappers and footmen, love and death. It was grand soap opera, of course, but it sandblasted as often as it bubbled. It gave up more vivid characters...