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...national security was the excuse to hide numerous illegal activities in the Nixon White House. But there are occasions when national security should be legitimately invoked. "My roughest moments involve intelligence matters," says Powell. "There is no way to prove yourself. The situation is made for discord and distrust. It costs me more in terms of my credibility than any other situation. It all boils down to: Trust me, folks...
...major problem in dealing with the Soviets is their xenophobia. Though they have grown considerably more sophisticated about the outside world in recent years, they still show a distrust of foreigners that borders on paranoia and a defensiveness that can make them downright offensive. In one of his David Frost interviews, for example, Richard Nixon recalled a conversation President Eisenhower once had with Nikita Khrushchev. Eisenhower lamented that he could never seem to get away from the intrusions of the telephone. Khrushchev responded-irrelevantly and incorrectly-with a tirade about how the Soviets have far more telephones than the Americans...
...Watergate involvement, I almost began to pity him. But then I forced myself to reflect on the massive scandal surrounding his presidency and the disgraceful nature of his actions, and I knew Immediately that I must never allow myself to tolerate the man whose conduct bred nationwide distrust and confusion. You see, I too have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life...
Sampson's style involves two basic steps. First, he must establish a close rapport with his patient and dispel any tension or distrust the patient may have. Sampson says he can gain this trust just about anywhere--in a coffeeshop or over a drink. But he says he feels this is a critical stage because he must make his patient believe that hypnosis is useful in a practical way, that it is natural and far removed from the talent show or the circus. Sampson then applies one of a variety of hypnotic techniques--he has a repertoire of about seven...
...suburbs, the Irish learned to organize the wards, seize power and dispense the meager benefits of city hall patronage. But in the interests of city growth and a progressive image, they yielded in the 1960s to wrecking-ball blitzes, which savaged homogeneous neighborhoods, displaced the poor and forged a distrust of city hall and all governments beyond...