Word: interview
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency was on rare display around Washington last Thursday. First there was the 37th President, deposed Richard Nixon, quoted as saying in a David Frost interview that a President was above the law. Before noon No. 38, Gerald Ford, now a genial Palm Springs jock, was traveling nostalgically through the corridors of power on his second visit as a private citizen to the place he wished he had never left...
...third Frost interview, he talked both of a country arrayed against him and of one held together by his courage and daring. He was comparing himself to Lincoln again, and his troubles to the Civil War, talking about heaven and hell and lamenting that the Kennedys had never had him to lunch .Here again was the evidence - and warning - of how personal the presidency can become, how easy it is in the comfortable recesses of power to drift beyond reality...
...interview with the Washington Post last week, Major General John K. Singlaub, 55, flatly declared that Jimmy Carter's proposed withdrawal of the 31,700 U.S. ground troops in South Korea over a four- or five-year period "will lead to war." Singlaub, third-ranking U.S. general in South Korea, insisted that the pullout would encourage North Korea to launch a second invasion...
...Henry Kissinger was prepared to settle for majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia, and worry about South Africa later; Carter believes all three must move together. Even as Mondale was heading for Vienna last week, after making diplomatic stops in Lisbon and Madrid, the President said in a television interview in Los Angeles that the U.S. was doing "everything we can" to persuade Vorster to end apartheid...
Though Wright had only a grade-school education and worked at menial jobs, he was constantly under suspicion as an intellectual. "He talks like a book," a comrade complained. Observed Wright: "That was enough to condemn me forever as bourgeois." Disregarding warning signals, he tried to interview party members for a series of articles explaining Communism to the Negro masses. Party suspicion became sulfurous. A comrade pointedly reminded him that intellectuals were frequently shot in the Soviet Union. Wright became certain that if his American comrades ever came to power, that would be his fate as well. "I began...