Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators on Wednesday or Thurs day at 12:30 is a unique institution of the modern presidency. Jimmy drinks buttermilk. Rosalynn has coffee. They nibble at salads and sin wildly when they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch, Rosalynn got the surprise of her life when the President revealed that just minutes earlier, agreement had been reached with China...
...only are much higher than 46% but are sometimes based on the price of the oil. That gives the companies large credits that they can use to "shield" profits from, say, refineries in Caribbean tax havens where there are low or even no taxes at all. Complains Washington Attorney Jack Blum, for eleven years a staff member of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee and the Foreign Relations Committee, and now a frequent critic of the Oil Game's international accounting and tax methods: "We have reached the point with the oil companies where the foreign tax credit is being...
There followed a period of drifting, to California, to Florida, but always back to Washington. He discovered how to use his fists, hung around with pugs (Jack Dempsey is still his best friend), boxed as an amateur and as a sparring partner. To his mother's horror, he accepted a bout as a professional, and won. But haunted by his father's nomadic, and futile, search for economic security, he returned again and again to law school, until on the last try he earned a degree...
...says a West German expert. "But these cannot provide the sense of a place, the smell, sound and color that can tell so much." Because of declining morale and fear of leaks, CIA networks overseas have broken down. The agent who works abroad is often on his own. Says Jack Maury, onetime CIA chief of Soviet operations: "You can't just give orders from the top and expect them to be carried out. The real protection is integrity, not polygraphs and locks on the doors...
...have generally been more modest in scope and supportive of friendly, usually democratic nations and political parties. Few CIA officials, past or present, defend the large-scale paramilitary operations that led to disaster in Cuba and to considerable controversy, at least, in Laos. "Our mission was much inflated," says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies. You are not going to change the course of history by cloak and dagger." Ray Cline feels that the CIA is "better at subtle, indirect methods. It is late in the game when you have to shoot someone...