Word: les
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...speech Sunday night expressing his regrets about the deaths but calling the mission "very successful." By Monday morning Clinton, returning to his hotel in San Francisco after an early jog, learned that the situation was more serious. He took a conference call from Lake, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and two other advisers, who told him of the extent of casualties. "How did this happen?" Clinton demanded of Aspin, who put most of the blame on a U.N. command and control structure that had been unable to rush well-equipped troops to the Rangers' rescue. During another conference call later...
Defense Secretary Les Aspin refused to remove Admiral Frank Kelso II from his post as Chief of Naval Operations, overruling Navy Secretary John Dalton. In a report on the scandalous 1991 Navy Tailhook convention, Dalton had placed ultimate responsibility on Kelso for the pilots' sexual assaults...
...LES: In Woman of the Year, the Katherine Hepburn character is supposedly loosely based on Dorothy Thompson. So if you envision someone making a movie of your life sometime in the future, who can you imagine playing yourself...
...LES: You talked a bit both at the book reading and in your book about populism being a term that's misused greatly. ("Calling David Duke a populist is like calling Pat Buchanan a global visionary: message--Zulus are coming.") Can you ever...
...LES: When you say "grew out of the soil" is that a reference to farmers, or do you just mean in an organic sense...