Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting between Ford and Schlesinger was not acrimonious, but both men were uncomfortable. Ford said he needed his own team, that he had to end the public feud between Schlesinger and Kissinger. He kept referring to Schlesinger's "resignation." Schlesinger was irritated by the repetition of the word. "I haven't resigned, sir, you are firing me," he corrected the President...
...well as executing his orders. Since Ford, unlike Nixon, wants to be accessible to his top advisers, Rumsfeld neither stands in their way nor seeks to dominate policy meetings. He makes sure each adviser has his say and that dissenting opinions are brought into the open. Rumsfeld has generally kept his thoughts on major issues to himself-and the President. Speaking of Ford, he says: "There's nothing I wouldn't tell...
...worst-kept secrets in the Middle East is Israel's nuclear capability. For nearly a decade, Israel has had the materials and scientific talent needed to make atomic weapons, as well as some means of firing them on Arab targets. Jerusalem has consistently refused to acknowledge its nuclear muscle; yet since it is fooling practically no one, what is to be gained by ambiguity? Not much, argues Robert W. Tucker, professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University. In the November issue of Commentary, Tucker suggests that Israel should seriously consider making public the existence of an atomic arsenal...
...paper napkins (he considered them more sanitary than linen). Few seemed to mind, including Calvin Coolidge, who once dropped by for a visit after retiring from politics. Davies impishly served the teetotaling former President tokay wine, while assuring him that it was nonalcoholic. "He started talking at dinner, and kept on drinking the tokay," she recalled. Said the not-so-silent Cal: "Best darned nonalcoholic drink I ever drank in my life...
DURING THAT TIME, he kept scrupulous notes and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with Chavez, the other leaders of the movement, state legislators, Teamster organizers, and even "growers"--the term used in California for the captains of agribusiness. He has written a long sympathetic book describing Chavez's early childhood in Arizona, his family's deprivation during the Depression and flight to California, and Chavez's adult life as a union organizer...