Word: indiscreetness
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...happy group." Yet, at the end of that same press conference, Reagan learned for the first time that his whiz-kid budget director had brought yet another flap upon the Administration: in an article in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stockman was quoted as saying some most indiscreet things about the Administration's entire approach to budget balancing and tax cutting. Suddenly, the architect of Reaganomics was in danger of being fired. And for the second time in two weeks, Reagan had to summon a top aide to the White House for a stern presidential scolding...
...George McGovern wanted them to be. And, if anything, the political game is rougher now, played by fiercer men, according to fewer rules. In a sense, the New Right's defeat of McGovern confirmed his obsolescence, confirmed that the political voices of the eighties will not speak with an indiscreet excess of conviction. Perhaps George McGovern, the former college professor, never belonged in politics in the first place. Perhaps that Capitol Hill office was meant for James Abdnor all along...
...Americans were able to let their hair down over imported water, Prohibition might have succeeded. The cocktail party surely would never have been invented, no man would ever have insulted his boss, no woman would ever have been indiscreet ... I miss all these things at the im-ported-water parties nowadays, with their dedicated guests on lonesome pursuits sturdily keeping their hair up. Next morning, of course, there is a clear head but very little worth remembering in life...
...long forgotten, when New York was a carefully-watched melting pot, a neat patchwork of ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods linked by the roaring steel subways that carried people to and from their work. Now that era is gone, destroyed as methodically as if someone had taken one of those frighteningly indiscreet air-hammers to it. And there is no work...
...Nixon's rather paternal attitude toward his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. He describes Kissinger as brilliant but a bit immature, overly concerned about potential power rivals like Texan John Connally, too intrigued by Hollywood and other show-business celebrities. Nixon claims he was not bothered by some indiscreet criticism from Henry. "An odd man ... unpleasant ... very artificial," Kissinger was once heard to say about Nixon at a dinner in Ottawa when he was unaware that his table microphone was on. Nixon tells Frost with good humor: "He didn't remember to turn off the microphone, but on the other...