Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just don't have a lot of big money today. Even the progressives have to realize that. We don't have billions to spend on all this stuff. I wish we did, but we don't. So you have to live with the realities of a tough situation...
Lance stoutly defends his aggressive method of handling his financial affairs. "The only way you can build an estate is by borrowing money and working at it," he says. "A lot of people would say they weren't willing to take those risks, and a conservative fellow wouldn't take that sort of risk. I was willing...
...favored the invasion of Cambodia in April 1970, but was upset at the adverse domestic reaction, especially after the Kent State shootings. Kissinger, said Nixon, told him that Cambodia "could have been a mistake. And I said, 'Henry, we've done it.' I said, 'Remember Lot's wife. Never look back.' " Frost asked Nixon whether Kissinger ever spoke of resigning. Nixon remembered "perhaps half a dozen times...
...think there are a number of combinations. We don't have to have a transitional government. The idea is now different. The constitution must first be produced before the agreement. This is because a lot of suspicion attached to the previous agreement. And there, I regret to say, the British, in the main, are responsible for sowing seeds of mistrust and trying to suggest that this government cannot be trusted...
...Lasorda is in his rookie season as manager of the Dodgers. After 27 years as a spear carrier in the organization, he is enjoying the big job. Says he: "Managing during this streak has been a lot more fun than it was watching from the bench back in '55." An open, ebullient man, subject to sudden attacks of overstatement (Dodger Stadium is "blue heaven on earth"; "Cut me, I bleed Dodger blue"), Lasorda is the antithesis of Predecessor Walter Alston, who perfected the art of keeping his own counsel. "I believe in whooping it up, patting guys...