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...Presidents. In each, he had inserted a slip of paper, marking a place where he had found something of interest. That is how Nixon had spent his last night as President. He had been seeking solace from the only men who could truly know what he was feeling?his kinsmen in history. I simply could not render personal judgment on Nixon after seeing what he had gone through...
...wasn't very surprising when Koch endorsed Reagan for president and not Jimmy Carter, nor was it a shock when Reagan supported Koch's campaign for governor. The two men are political kinsmen, even though they belong to different parties. So the president, and the rest of the nation as well, would do well to look at the quality of life in New York and think about why Koch was dumped by his own city when he sought higher office. New Yorkers seem to have realized that cutting essential services to finance incentives for a few corporations...
...outbreak of the 1914-18 war, Europe was largely ruled by hereditary monarchie. German kings and princelings providing, as it were, the stud farm that kept the breed going. The ruling monarchs were often kinsmen, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins, whose family relationships were a factor in international diplomacy. In those days, Prince Charles might well have found himself leading to the altar, instead of his charming English bride, some outlandish princess whose charms were more dynastic than bodily, and whose English was rudimentary...
Others of Diana's kinsmen made their mark in worldly affairs, many as great statesmen. George Washington is an eighth cousin seven times removed, and through the wife of an eccentric American great-great-grandfather, Diana is related to Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford B. Hayes, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sir Winston Churchill (middle name: Spencer) is a cousin, as is former Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Scholarly limbs include Historian Henry Adams, Philosopher Bertrand Russell and Lexicographer Noah Webster. Theatrical boughs: Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish...
...There are also garrisons outside the capitals of the Central Asian republics. The soldiers stationed there, in the main, are from other parts of the country rather than local boys; if they were ever ordered to quash an uprising, they would not be firing on their ethnic kinsmen...