Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as he took office, Jimmy Carter put the canal at the top of the agenda of the National Security Council, although in the presidential campaign he had pledged "never to give up complete control or practical control" of the waterway. Vance subsequently held a wellpublicized, two-hour meeting with then Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd. To give the talks a boost, Sol Linowitz, 53, the skilled former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was added to the American negotiating team. The aim was to make him head of the effort, but he insisted on deferring to Veteran...
...highlight of Lillian Carter's trip was a four-hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself...
...more years than one cares to calculate, the inhabitants of the Oval Office have gloried in the myth of super-human exertion. The more meetings, the more phone calls, the more crises, the longer the hours, the better it got. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, worked an early shift of eight hours, took a two-hour nap in the late afternoon, then stepped into a cold shower that pummeled him back to consciousness, after which he worked eight more hours. Richard Nixon by that measure was rather lazy, but he was so intimidated by his predecessor that his staff strove frantically...
...days there it looked like Jimmy Carter would restore balance. He went to work at the good country hour of 7:30 a.m. and got back home to dinner regularly at 6:30 p.m. He wrote his staff a memo saying that they needed rest and time with their families. Carter even opened up a little spare time in the mornings to think by himself. He went to the opera one Sunday afternoon and returned to Plains on a weekend to stroll along the main street...
...hour day, the seven-day week, may be necessary at times. But the challenge to a President is one of limiting himself to critical issues. The tragedy wrought by Presidents who felt they must listen to every voice, address every complaint has never been calculated. Surely it is immense...