Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nixon is careful to avoid outright criticism of Reagan, partly because he thinks it would only aggravate the President's stubborn streak and partly because Reagan was always loyal and supportive toward me when I was in office." In effect, however, Nixon is refuting a view prevalent in the Reagan Administration that the U.S. might some day be able to bring the Soviet Union to its knees with economic blockades and military pressure. He believes the troubles afflicting the Soviet system make this the time not to isolate the Soviet leadership, but to engage it "at the highest level...
Shortly after his victory in 1980, when Reagan was mulling over appointments, he boasted that Weinberger could fill any Cabinet post. The Defense Secretary, for his part, is an extremely loyal team player who is fond of pointing out that Reagan is the "most underrated world leader of our time," and often compares his boss to Winston Churchill...
...Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, where John and Robert Kennedy had launched their bids for the White House, Room 4232 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building is small and comparatively humble. Packed inside with a slew of Kennedy family members were the usual political retainers and loyal supporters, gathered together for the occasion: not the launching but the scuttling of a presidential bid. Announced Edward Kennedy last week: "I will not be a candidate for President of the United States...
...because someone says he might like green fur seats." If volume continues to increase, however, one option is to open the U.S. assembly plant that Volvo built in Chesapeake, Va., but decided in 1974 not to operate. Whether an American-made Volvo would diminish the Swedish mystique, only those loyal and affluent buyers know for sure...
...commitment to free trade. Had the talks failed to reach any agreement, the world's nations would have been forced to realize how much more needs to be done to better trade relations and to prevent protectionism. Now governments can impose tariffs and other restrictions and still remain loyal to the letter of the Geneva package. At the outset of the talks, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary R.T. McNamar declared. "The GATT ministerial decision may well set the tone of international economics, and therefore international political relations generally for the rest of the 20th century." If so, the next 18 years...