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...more kindly view of Watergate than Congress and the public did in 1974. But the sheer passage of time should do something for the man-the occasional chance for a speech or interview, a dignified mission like the Sadat funeral, a newspaper photo with his attractive children and grandchildren...
...personnel had inspected every rifle, every truck, every tank that would be in the march, to make sure that no live ammunition would be issued. Now the security men were combing the arriving invited guests with metal detectors. Jehan Sadat, the President's elegant wife, 48, had brought her grandchildren and was watching from a glass enclosure at the top of the stand; it was the first time she had taken the youngsters to a public event. Abu Ghazala launched the proceedings with a speech praising Egypt's armed forces. The review began...
...essentially a beagle, quivered under the couch. Helms emptied his pockets?some change, a silver cross, a Christian medallion?and talked about his curious perch in American politics. "Some folks say I'm scary," he says. "The people here don't think I'm scary." Two of his four grandchildren, capering in the yard, call him "Sir," but they are not scared. He does not want to be scary...
...grandmother. Father, a minor bank functionary who brought the family to the U.S. in 1906, when Colbert was three, was overshadowed by those two feuding, formidable little women. Colbert's favorite was grandmère. "There's an old saying," she says: "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-the mother...
...mother died 15 years ago. My father, at 86, is still alert and active, mostly because he knows he is needed by his children and grandchildren...