Word: friendships
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...therefore more than a year since I've had a chance to tell you with what delight & pride all of us who follow you so far behind watch your tremendous progress through time and place. Also to tell you with what gratitude I think of your unfailing generosity "and friendship to me. A good part of whatever confidence I have rests on that. This needs, of course, no answer. yours ever Archie
Allen Dorfman, above all else, was a survivor. Introduced to the young Jimmy Hoffa in 1949, when the future Teamsters boss was but an ambitious union leader in Detroit, Dorfman parlayed that friendship into a multimillion-dollar insurance empire whose most lucrative account was the union's Central States Health and Welfare Fund. From 1958 to 1971, when Hoffa headed the Teamsters, Dorfman emerged as his powerful lieutenant. Before Hoffa was led off to jail in 1967 for jury tampering, he told subordinates, "When Dorfman speaks, he speaks...
Prime Minister Nakasone was a particularly welcome visitor to Washington. His willingness to make the trip scarcely eight weeks after he had assumed office was interpreted as a sign that the Japanese are anxious to preserve their 30-year friendship with the U.S. Two weeks ago, in preparation for the Prime Minister's tour, his government reduced nontariff barriers on a number of relatively unimportant U.S. imports. Nakasone also moved decisively to ease tensions over defense policy. He inserted a modest increase in defense spending into his otherwise austere national budget, and he ended a 15-year...
Nixon's simplistic outlook is not confined to ridiculous quotes called at random from the text of his work, however For all the contact and friendship he had with the world's power-brokers. Nixon adds strikingly little to stereotyped images of the Churchill and DeGaulles So what if Churchill was fascinating at the dinner table? Nixon's 35 page discussion of the British leader reads more like an informed person's biography than a President's memoirs...
...officials are treating the slow courtship "with dignified calm," in the words of a U.S. official. Experts in Washington express confidence that enduring conflicts of interest, notably over Afghanistan and Kampuchea, will limit any new Sino-Soviet friendship. Says a U.S. analyst: "We don't really see these two agreeing on anything very significant. But we sure don't want them to, either." Even if the Soviets and the Chinese move closer, there will be plenty of warning. "The U.S. does not have to panic or go courting cravenly," says a U.S. diplomat. "We expect no dramatic changes...