Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naming a chief of staff and creating a well-defined pecking order, Carter plans to give his top half-dozen assistants free access to the Oval Office. If that proves to be too inefficient, the betting is that Jordan or Lipshutz will emerge as the head man. In his favor, Lipshutz has his years, his avuncular manner and his legal savvy. He will preside over the morning staff meetings...
That left Utah National Committeeman Richard Richards, Reagan's man, to fight strenuously to the end for the job. To woo the moderates, Richards downplayed his Reagan connection by promising, if elected, to "favor any candidate of any political philosophy...
...favor a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state linked to Jordan...
...present housing system was included as an option in the straw votes, but nobody spoke in favor of it in the time allotted on the agenda, and no one voted for either the status quo, or the status quo "pending further study" as a first choice. Dean Rosovsky saw this agreement that there must be some changes made as encouraging. There was little else at the meeting from which to draw encouragement, or even a smile, unless it was Rosovsky's own one-liners...
...ambassador and special envoy to several Latin American countries; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Sunset Island, Fla. Pawley disclosed in the 1960s that President Eisenhower had sent him to Cuba in the final weeks of the Batista regime in an effort to persuade the dictator to abdicate in favor of a caretaker government. Batista refused, and Fidel Castro took control of the country...