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White House aides insisted that Reagan had known all along he would have to give on military spending and had been following his often repeated theory of effective bargaining: ask for more than you can get and offer not even the slightest hint of concession until absolutely sure you have obtained the maximum. As the President himself put it to reporters in Lisbon, "I've always kind of believed in leaving a cushion there for dealing." Reagan's advisers observed, too, that the civilian spending cuts in the budget resolution further Reagan's objective of reducing the size and power...
...lush German countryside on his flight to Bergen-Belsen, Reagan said, reminded him that prisoners at the camp must have despaired of ever seeing spring again. Choking with emotion, he went on: "All these children of God, under bleak and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which does not even hint at the unspeakable acts that created them. Here they lie, never to hope, never to pray, never to live, never to heal, never to laugh, never...
...said she possessed "a calm, serious soul." Twenty years later a young American visitor to London encountered Mary Ann, now famous as George Eliot. "Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father. "A mingled sagacity and sweetness--a broad hint of a great underlying world of reserve, knowledge, pride and power." Two years before her death in 1880, Ivan Turgenev raised his glass at a party in an English country house and proposed a toast to Eliot: "The greatest living novelist...
...than a black hole for vast national resources, then why has Reagan's threat to develop the system driven> the Russians back to the negotiating table at Geneva? Why has the desire to stop antimissile defenses become crucial to Russian negotiating strategy, and, in fact, caused the Russians to hint at a willingness to be flexible in other areas, such as intermediate range missiles, where previously they had threatened only five and brimstone, or worse...
...secrecy, then unwrapped with theatrical effect. On Wednesday, House Republican Leader Robert Michel informed Ronald Reagan that resumption of U.S. military funding for the contras fighting Nicaragua's government was "dead in the water" unless there was a "change in the formulation of policy." The President offered no hint of any new flexibility. But the next morning he dispatched National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to brief some 20 congressional leaders of both parties in the House Intelligence Committee's bug-proof room high in the Capitol. That afternoon Reagan held a press conference to announce his "proposal for peace...