Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major appliances, and a clampdown on the amount of money Israelis may spend abroad (from $2,000 to $1,000). Replied Peres: "I found in the White House a true friend of Israel. We are determined to face our economic problems head-on." He added that the American friendship was "a source of strength and inspiration...
When Churchill came to write his six-volume history of that epoch, The Second World War (1948-1953), he portrayed this intensely personal alliance as an unmatched and unmarred friendship, for he wanted very much to see the two nations continue their political partnership. Now, with the publication of the monumental Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, expertly edited by Rutgers History Professor Warren F. Kimball, the relationship between the two leaders emerges as more tempestuous, and correspondingly more interesting, than was generally believed. There are no shattering revelations, to be sure: the two Allies' archives were declassified...
...next day, Roosevelt complained of "a terrific headache," pressed his hand to his forehead and then fell unconscious in his chair. Churchill cabled the President's widow his grief at the loss of "a dear and cherished friendship which was forged in the fire of war." Perhaps he also remembered not just the great battles won but the small exchanges: the time Roosevelt sent him a postage stamp postmarked on the cruiser Augusta the day Churchill had climbed aboard; the time Roosevelt jokingly sent him a newspaper clipping suggesting that Churchill's wife was descended from Mormons...
Needless to say, she had heard of him, and says now that her friendship with Parker was instrumental in easing the transition to Harvard's crew program...
Although franks like is for the most part develop of deep personal contuets, occasionally his affectionate nature breaks through and one glimpses what could have been-in the sharing of broad pudding with his father, and the even more lasting and important friendship with "Phil," who ironically who becomes I rank's lawyer and advisor. Even this friendship is corrupted into a business partnership. Much of the story comes through Phil's narration. through Phil the reader receives a more practical perspective of I rank, as well as relief from the explosively detailed prose surrounding I rank's narration...