Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inner group of correspondents for a private, off-the-record, all-secret lunch on politics at the home of Preston Grover of the Associated Press...
...Roosevelt's vast geographical knowledge as the President's most extraordinary quality, and then, with irritation, spoke of the difficulty of pinning Roosevelt down to specifics. the stubbornness of Roosevelt, his own inability to get clear instruction from him. We finally sat down to lunch and Grover said flatly that since we were forbidden to talk politics at Ike's military headquarters, we were here to talk politics in his, Grover's, home. So-how about...
...jovial lunch as we fell to at table. Grover, a bachelor, rarely gave his gifted cook an opportunity to prepare the hearty Burgundian meals in which she specialized, so now for the great General Eisenhower she had outdone herself. The wine went round and round, the pastries of ham-curls stuffed with goose liver piled...
There is a rich literature of political assault. "We love him for the enemies he has made" was the boast of Grover Cleveland's supporters in 1884. Teddy Roosevelt gloried in confrontation with tycoons ("malefactors of great wealth"). F.D.R. had his "economic royalists" to pummel. Harry Truman is still celebrated as a man who liked to "give 'em hell...
...Harvard Libertarian Association, a group calling for fewer government controls of society, will publish the first issue of a new student newspaper, The Harvard Chronicle, on Tuesday, Grover G. Norquist '78, a member of the association, said yesterday...