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...scene playing out before him. Lyndon Johnson had summoned House members for a briefing on Viet Nam. L.B.J. could not contain himself. As Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara described the war, Johnson would leap up, take the pointer from McNamara and jab it at the map. "Tell 'em what's happening here, Bob," Johnson would command. "Tell 'em what's going on down there...
...never let em score in the last two minutes of a period." Blair said. "It's a cardinal rule of hockey...
...play a lot of crosses," Kenworthy says. "We have guys on the sides who can get 'em off and it helps to have big guys in the middle...
...Smarts. The trouble in this administration is no one's got 'em. The lack of expertise on arms matters in Washington is approaching the nadir of the post-war world, a depressing trend made seary by the detachment of the President on the issue. The President's three top foreign policy advisers--the secretaries of State and Defense and his national security adviser--are all neophytes in the arcane business of nuclear weapons, leaving the nuts and bolts of the subject to second-level bureaucrats. Historically, every major Soviet American agreement has been carried forward through the initiative...
...Well, what I'll do is is start quietly leaking the problems you guys are having down there. I'll low-key it, but make sure they come snooping around, maybes tell'em to look a little closer at your athletic program. By the way, I don't think I ever told you that I thought that was a great speech you gave a few years back to your alumni Really told'em off about sports. If you and Ryan can keep your teams losing for the next ten years, we'll be golden...