Word: groups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarters. At 10:30 the meeting broke up. But less than nine hours later the limousines were back at the White House, and a second round was under way by 7:30 Friday morning. This time Hamilton Jordan, the President's Chief of Staff, sat in with the group. For 1 hr. 45 min. they continued their brainstorming...
...Soviet troops affair with sufficient skill, Carter enlisted about a dozen veteran foreign policy experts to study the impasse and suggest possible ways of ending it. Seven of these "wise men," as they were called by Carter aides, got to work almost immediately. Headed by Clark Clifford, the group also included John McCone, McGeorge Bundy and John McCloy, all of whom served as advisers to Kennedy and Johnson; David Packard of the Nixon Administration; Brent Scowcroft of the Ford Administration; and Sol Linowitz, a longtime presidential consultant who most recently was chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties...
...aides insisted that any such interpretation was wrong, the result could not be denied. In his yet unannounced candidacy against Ted Kennedy, his equally unannounced challenger, Jimmy Carter had publicly evoked a shattering political image: Chappaquiddick. Carter's first reference came during a meeting with a group of news editors at the White House. Asked about the significance of polls on presidential popularity, he replied: "I think we have got a superb record . . . of course, your own character assessment, the reputation you have for being steady in an emergency . . . these things become much more important than the relatively transient...
Brian and I met frequently afterward, always without publicity. In early 1971 Brian suggested that I meet with a group of his friends to discuss the war and the problems of our society. I invited them to the White House. The friends turned out to be a nun and two laymen who had been named as unindicted coconspirators in an alleged plot to kidnap me. When the press later learned of the meeting from my visitors, I was admonished by the Secret Service and the Attorney General...
...Pope's message of love and faith did not reach everyone. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Tuesday received a letter from a terrorist group threatening his life...