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...Coldly Furious. The son of a South Carolina dirt farmer, Rivers was eight when his father died, and he knew poverty in his childhood. Rivers and his wife Margaret, parents of a son and two daughters, lived simply, maintaining a small brick house in McLean, Va., and a modest home in Charleston. For all his love of arms, Rivers never served in uniform. As he admitted, "I don't know squads-left from squads-right...
That was not Amy Vanderbilt speaking. It was Pat Nixon's staff director and press secretary, Constance Cornell Stuart, lecturing Washington's lady journalists on how to cover formal receptions. "I don't know which made me more furious," recalls one White House reporter. "Her patronizing lecture or the phoniness of pretending that reporters are guests. We're there because we write about...
Carlson is a practiced hand at pleasing the public, and he has shown a talent for cost control, which he intends to bring quickly to bear at United. As a manager, he sets a furious pace that begins at 6 a.m. and continues for at least twelve hours. He has a compulsion to use every minute effectively. Once, during an exceptionally long meeting, an executive asked to be excused so that he could go to the men's room. As he rose, Carlson handed him a fat file. "While you are in there," he said...
Pique at the Ranch. Before Nixon announced the Connally appointment, he informed Lyndon Johnson by telephone of his choice. Nixon thought that Johnson would be pleased. Not likely. Johnson, still no slouch as a Democratic politician, was furious. Part of it was pique that Connally had not consulted him about taking the job. More important, like many other Democrats, Johnson felt that the last thing any Democrat should do right now is identify the party with Nixon's economics. Says one Texan who knows both Johnson and Connally well: "The President [Johnson] feels that Nixon could...
...hadn't Howard Hughes simply told Maheu that he was through? "Hughes was so mad at Maheu that he wanted to embarrass him," said one insider. Another suggested that "Hughes is furious with Maheu, and in his imperial manner he wanted to show that he did not have to bother with...