Word: herbert
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...friend and mentor and inspiration all my life. He and his wife Rose, his constant colleague and support, were lifelong friends of my parents Herbert and Mildred Stein after they met at the University of Chicago in the mid '30s. My father, a distinguished economist himself and chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon and briefly under Ford, forever stood in awe of the man. As my pop said many times, "Friedman was like every other economics student at Chicago in those days except twice as smart...
...heady days after the first Gulf War, Robert Gates liked to tell a story about his boss, George Herbert Walker Bush. As Bush 41 was preparing to invade Kuwait in 1990 and free that nation from the clutches of Saddam Hussein, Pentagon generals came up with what they thought was a clever scheme that might prevent the President from going to war. Gates was in the Oval Office when the generals brought in maps, charts and pointers and told Bush that Kuwait could be liberated only if he was willing to spend six months deploying half a million troops halfway...
...After leaving government, Gates wrote a book entitled From The Shadows and became president of Texas A & M University, the home of the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential Library. Recently, he was named a member of the James Baker-Lee Hamilton commission on Iraq...
...DIED. Herbert Leonard, 84, producer who created the seminal 1950s-'60s small-screen gems Naked City (New York crime tales); Route 66 (guys roam the U.S. in a Corvette convertible); and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (stories of an orphan and his dog in the Old West); in Los Angeles...
...South Korean Secret Police arrested Yun and sentenced him to death for alleged communist ties after he visited North Korea in order to organize concerts that would involve musicians from both countries. The news provoked international outrage from artists like Igor Stravinsky and Herbert von Karajan. Though South Korea eventually released Yun, he would live in exile for the rest of his life...