Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner for Democratic Congress men late in the week, Carter vented his frustration with the House, particularly over its rejection of the canal bill. He warned that campaign help, patronage appointments and even White House dinner invitations would henceforth go only to members who back his policies. Said the President: "We keep your voting records in my desk drawer in the Oval Office. We believe in rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies." That may or may not influence Congress...
...times the group displayed a startling naivete. After meeting with the military commanders of the Lebanese Muslims and their P.L.O. allies, Fauntroy declared that they "considered themselves men of peace. We have no reason to think they are opposed to nonviolence." That must have come as a surprise to most Lebanese, who have witnessed the Muslims and their Israeli-supported Christian foes slaughter each other by the thousands...
...Attorney General, although their friendship had eroded later. Nixon considered Rogers' unfamiliarity with the subject an asset because it guaranteed that policy direction would remain in the White House. At the same time, Nixon said, Rogers was one of the toughest, most cold-eyed, self-centered and ambitious men he had ever met. As a negotiator he would give the Soviets fits. And "the little boys in the State Department" had better be careful because Rogers would brook no nonsense. Few Secretaries of State can have been selected because of their Presidents' confidence in their ignorance of foreign...
This curious antiphonal relationship between the two men had the consequence of enhancing my position, but my own role was clearly a result of that relationship and not the cause of it. From the beginning Nixon was determined to dominate the most important negotiations. Throughout his term, when a state visitor was received in the Oval Office by Nixon for a lengthy discussion, I was the only other American present...
...superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies...