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...Kissinger to remain in his Cabinet for four more years, a White House aide says: "You won't hear the President make that statement again, at least not while Reagan is still breathing down our necks." Even Kissinger fans have long assumed that he would not necessarily be kept on for a second term, and while such talk does turn him into something of a lame duck in negotiations, his departure in an orderly transition to a new Administration would be quite different from dumping...
What drove him into hiding? In one of his rare meetings with outsiders, at Managua, Nicaragua, in 1971, he offered an explanation to former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Shelton Turner and Strongman Anastasio Somoza. "I was working on inventions, but calls and visitors kept interrupting me," he said. "I told my aides to cut down on appointments and calls. It was very gradual, but finally I realized I was not seen seeing anyone." Laughing, Hughes added, "I probably carried...
Hughes was fortunate too. Under both the Johnson and Nixon Administrations, he received kid-glove treatment. Not until 1971 did the IRS subject the Hughes holdings to an overall audit; the results of that audit have been kept secret. The Hughes Medical Institute has continued to enjoy tax-exempt status though its small volume of contributions does not meet IRS regulations for tax exemption. When Hughes in 1970 was faced with an antitrust complaint for attempting to buy another hotel in Las Vegas, former Attorney General John Mitchell personally intervened on his behalf...
...mother, and so he unburdened himself of dreams, ambitions and regrets that he had confided, apparently, to no one else. He hoped that she would salvage his reputation at Harvard, citadel of real and imagined enemies. But Kearns was too well trained on alien terrain and kept her psychic distance from her overwhelming subject. Imbued with some of the 1960s suspicions of practical politics, she is fair to L.B.J. but unfailingly cool. To her, Johnson is a monstrous amalgam of political good and evil, worthy of meticulous dissection. Her scalpel is cutting, and the wounds inflicted will not be easily...
London won almost every scrum with superior technique and an excellent hooker. And according to DeMatteo, its "kicking game was phenomenal." They kept the ball from the Crimson running backs and consistently kicked it over the back line...