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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward Moore Kennedy. From her wedding day, "Joansie," as Ted called her, found herself buffeted by the demands on a Kennedy wife. The hardest thing, she said shortly after her marriage, "is learning to keep up with the clan." Only years later could she admit: "I tried to be like the Kennedys, bouncy and running all over. But I could never be that." Even her repeated miscarriages seemed a special failure. "Subconsciously," said Joan, "I'd like to have been like Ethel and had one baby after another...
money. The President would like to begin 1980 with $5 million in the till. At the moment he has less than $1 million...
Last week in New York, Connally turned his expansive approach to foreign trade. Government and business must be more aggressive, he said, and must send a new breed of technological "Yankee traders" to exploit rich Asian markets. Most notably, like Democratic Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown, Connally advocated a North American common market. "This economic union would be a formidable trading bloc," he said. Here too there are problems. Mexico has already denounced the idea as little more than latter-day Yankee imperialism designed to capture Mexican oil. It is also, according to one prominent businessman, ''hideously complex...
...requested such a machine and then used it so sporadically is unclear. He did like to keep written synopses of most Oval Office meetings; but he almost always either had an assistant take notes or dictated his recollections afterward. Whitman, who transcribed many of the tapes, points to the machine's deficiencies. After typing the first summary in 1953, she typed at the bottom that ''large portions of the tape were completely garbled.'' Five years later, when Queen Frederika visited the Oval Office, the recorder was still not cooperating: the transcript simply notes that...
From 1910 until the end of World War II, Korea was a Japanese colony. Park, like other Korean officer candidates, was required to take a Japanese name (Masao Takagi) and an oath of loyalty to the Emperor...