Word: man
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L.B.J. related how Bobby Kennedy's Adam's apple went up and down when L.B.J. barred him from the vice-presidential ticket in 1964. "The most important thing a man has to tell you," said John son, "is what he is not telling you." L.B.J. could mimic every adversary. "Don't look out those windows," he warned his staff who were across the street the day after Kennedy's murder. "The people in the White House will think you are looking for power." When a TV reporter offended Johnson, he told an aide...
Harry Truman took a liking to Joe Stalin, but when he got a case of the old dictator's best vodka, Truman gave it away, wondering about any man who would drink the stuff over bourbon. Truman watched with fascination as Secretary of State Dean Acheson verbally diminished Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, who had the idea he should be a larger figure around the White House...
Sindona's disappearance was first reported by his secretary, who said she had received a phone call from a man with a foreign accent. His message: "We now have Michele Sindona as our prisoner. You will be hearing from us." Several days later, the missing man's family reported getting a letter from his captors saying that he must answer to "proletarian justice." U.S. law enforcement officials remained skeptical and listed him as a "missing person" rather than as a kidnap victim. Said Italian Magistrate Guido Viola of Milan, where Sindona has been charged with a bank fraud...
...concluded later: "It was classic Bedouin hospitality to avoid controversial subjects during a get-acquainted visit." The fact is that Saudi leaders have said time and again for that past six years that there is an intimate connection between the oil and Palestinian issues. Arafat certainly talks like a man who believes he has that kind of muscle behind him (see interview, following page...
...exactly. Otherwise I'd be a very stupid man. Just remember that any complication for the Palestinian cause means a complication for the Middle East crisis, and also complications that the American computer itself might be unable to predict, including Soviet complications. Is all that risk in your interest just to keep on spoiling your naughty baby Israel...