Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency is a very personal office. Despite the best efforts of scholars to stuff it into pigeonholes and hang it up on graphs, the presidency takes on the moods of the man in the office. His purposes become policy by osmosis. His sense of urgency regulates the administrative speed. The food he likes shows up on menus at state dinners, and the Marine Band magically plays his favorite tunes. The very words he uses shape the language of his time in power...
...Jimmy Carter now at work behind the closed White House doors is not the Jimmy Carter we grew to know in the first 30 months of his presidency. It is true that he was from the beginning a somewhat elusive figure. But at the center there was a man of regular habits, kindly ways and comfortable personal characteristics. He did warn us last week that he was going to change "my life-style and my way of working." But the events of this week represent more than that...
...accuser in this case is another Illinois Republican, Rep. Paul Findley, who has just written a book about Lincoln's years in Congress. He discovered the details of Lincoln's padded expense account in muckraking stories written at the time by Horace ("Go West, young man!") Greeley of the New York Tribune. Findley is less than outraged by Honest Abe's exaggerations. He points out that the future President only earned $4 a day for his service in the House...
Somoza's resignation followed weeks of complicated negotiations between his decaying regime, the U.S. and the five-man junta that the rebels had named as Nicaragua's provisional government. At first, Somoza stalled, apparently hoping that his powerfully armed 12,000-member national guard might still reverse the tide of battle. But by the beginning of last week even Somoza could see that further resistance was futile. He agreed to the rebel junta's plan for turning over power to the new regime. The first step would be for Somoza to resign and leave the country...
...would be hard to imagine a more vivid contrast to strutting President Tacho Somoza than the cool, unflappable man who has taken his place as the dominant figure in Nicaragua's government. Sergio Ramírez Mercado, 36, is a baby-faced intellectual who attracts little attention until he begins to speak, in a soft, nasal voice. But his quiet charisma has enabled the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) writer to win the confidence of all the factions represented on the five-member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism...