Word: forrestall
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The etymology can be traced, with rare nicety, to the last Big Bang in world affairs before the current one -- the pivotal autumn of 1945, just after the end of World War II and before the beginning of the cold war. "Our national security can only be assured on a...
When Bush climbed aboard his jet for this odyssey, he was in the hands of the U.S. Air Force. The President's three Marine helicopters had been ferried in the belly of an Air Force transport and were waiting for him on the Malta ramps. From there the machines whirled...
Before he sat down with Gorbachev, the President pointedly gloried in the thunderous launching and recovery of F-14 Tomcat fighters on the Forrestal. Down in the carrier's hangar bay, Bush stood before the quieted planes and crews and talked about his view of war. "There's a painting...
He presented the Forrestal's crew with a piece of the crumbling Berlin Wall as "a symbol of the peace we seek."
During a brief visit to the American aircraft carrier, the USS Forrestal, Bush called Gorbachev "a dynamic new Soviet leader willing... to think anew."