Word: gracious
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...Fitial recalled that the President was "very gracious" at the session. "He knew quite a few of the people in the room; I know that because he called them by their first name. The responses showed that the President was no stranger to these people, he said. "And the response was very warm on both sides...
...only am I smarter than you; I am also more gracious. Indeed for your sake––and for the sake of those who, like myself, can hardly endure another moment in the company of imbeciles––I have compiled a few guidelines for behavior at Harvard College...
Relations between Bush and Clinton began warming more than a year ago, when 41 gave a gracious speech at the opening of the Clinton library in Little Rock, Ark., in November 2004. During a long tour of the facility that followed, the two men got lost in conversation and fell behind the main party, delaying lunch for the rest of the dignitaries. A bemused President Bush dispatched Clinton Foundation chairman Skip Rutherford with a message for the slow-moving club members: "Tell 41 and 42 that 43 is hungry...
DIED. WILLIAM BRYANT, 94, trailblazing D.C. lawyer who became the first black chief judge of a U.S. federal district court; in Washington. One of the first black Assistant U.S. Attorneys, he was appointed to the federal bench by Lyndon Johnson in 1965. Strikingly gracious despite having endured virulent racism early in his career, he was modest, averse to media attention and passionate about the ability of lawyers to achieve justice. If not for lawyers, he once said, "I'd still be three-fifths...
...decision until Wednesday night, by then the deed was all but done. Her meetings with Senators were not winning her any support. One who attended them described her as "smitten by the President," talking endlessly about her admiration for him in her soft Texas drawl. She was unfailingly gracious, but she faced a tough crowd, and the private prep sessions were just as shaky. By that time, conservatives were so riled, even a Bush win would have been a loss. The cost would have been permanent, unforgiving fury from a whole swath of his base--and a Democratic Party smelling...