Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As if Carter did not have enough to annoy him last week, Vice President Walter Mondale, speaking in Cincinnati, declared: "If President Kennedy runs, and I expect him to run, he will be renominated and I am convinced re-elected." Two days later, the Associated Press sent an advisory message...
In 1962, when I served for a short time as a consultant to President Kennedy, he asked me to brief the crusty West German Chancellor Adenauer on the military ideas of the young Administration. Adenauer had his doubts about the strategic doctrines that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was developing...
I paid the price for my naiveté. The quotes ascribed to me, statements of marginal taste gathered together in what she presented as a conversation, were the most self-serving utterances of my entire public career. What drove Nixon up the wall was a quotation Fallaci put in my...
And Connally was indeed the most formidable personality in the Cabinet. Highly intelligent, superbly endowed physically, he looked and acted as if he were born to lead. He was not timid, nor did he lack courage. "You will be measured in this town," he said to me once, "by the...
Like many self-made Texans he preferred the frontal assault to the indirect maneuver. He was convinced that the best way to transcend the malaise of Viet Nam was for our leaders to be visibly engaged in a tough defense of the American interest. He demonstrated immediately that the notorious...