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...First we greet those we've learned...
Pretty conceited, huh? The kind of thing Harvard fans would greet with chants of "BORING, BORING...
...President since Thomas Jefferson," tends toward a Jeffersonian attitude where the trappings of public office are concerned. As Georgia's chief executive, he sometimes surprised visitors to the Governor's mansion by appearing barefoot and in Levi's, even as Jefferson used to greet visitors to the White House in an old robe and slippers. Carter is discovering, however, that it is not quite so easy to resist the perquisites of the modern presidency...
There were small signs that the mantle was already beginning to slip. As Ford arrived in Palm Springs, his normally efficient advancemen forgot to ask a high school band to greet him with Hail to the Chief. They played, instead, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever...
...When they arrived at the Moslem leftist stronghold of Aley, the highest-ranking commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization there leapt out of his Land Rover to greet his Syrian counterpart. They saluted formally, shook hands, embraced and finally kissed. Everyone was smiling. In the car on the way back to Beirut, the Palestinian commander said: 'I wish they had done this from the beginning, moving into both sides. I hope they never leave Lebanon.' The Syrians, however, were received coolly in Christian areas. At Jounieh civilians on the roadside looked grim, and two militiamen standing with their...