Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medicine Balls. Nixon's approach to organization and work habits demands formal, early scheduling. Last week he was acting like a farmer raring to start the spring plowing. The morning after the Inauguration balls, with just four hours' sleep, Nixon was up at 6:45 and in the Oval Office at 7:30, after a fast breakfast of juice, oatmeal and coffee. The suddenly spartan regimen was something of a surprise considering that Nixon has never been noted as liking early appearances. But it did enhance the image of a superindustrious new team. Trouble...
...Oval Office. Most of his "brainwork," he said, would be done in a new office, yet to be found, in the old Executive Office Building, across from the White House, where many of the President's staff will reside. The Oval Office will be used mostly for formal affairs. When he wants to work in the White House, Nixon will probably use a small private study that adjoins the big office or a small sitting room off the Lincoln Bedroom upstairs...
...briefing himself, staying close to the scrambler telephone that links the Paris Embassy to Washington. How did he feel about the prospects for settlement of the Viet Nam war? "I am the most hopeful man you have ever known in your life," he told newsmen. Lodge, as the first formal session quickly demonstrated, will probably need all the optimism he can muster in the months ahead. While the meeting began on a cool and correct note, it quickly became apparent that the Communists would be just as tough and unyielding as the most pessimistic predictions had envisaged...
...delegation, in line with their claim for a two-sided conference. The Communists left a noticeable gap between Hanoi's group of eight and the National Liberation Front's seven delegates to make their point for a four-sided gathering. There were no handshakes, no formal greetings, with the exception of a slight bow from Xuan Thuy toward the U.S. delegation. Deputy U.S. Negotiator Cyrus Vance returned the gesture; Lodge merely nodded acknowledgment...
...Catholics in Iron Curtain countries through protocol and concordat. Only lately has the realization seeped in that written agreements with Communist countries are the start, not the finish, of diplomacy - and that painful compromises are part of a tough bargain. Four years ago, the Holy See announced an elaborate formal agreement with Hungary that was supposed to mark the beginning of toleration for the country's 7,000,000 Catholics. But priests remained jailed, and episcopal appointments remained obstructed. Only last week, as a result of months of quiet negotiating (and Hungary's embarrassment over its support...