Word: michell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Illinois Republican Congressman Robert Michel, also on board that evening, had anticipated that there might be a little tenseness, given the events of the past days in Washington. "It was," he reported later, "the most open kind of uninhibited meeting that I have had with him since he was Vice President." Michel was at the President's side. The first thing he noted was that Nixon was in a checked sports coat. The President obviously had considered the occasion, and since he was going out on a boat, decided to be a little sporty. Good, thought Michel...
Usually on such cruises, a burdened President has confined himself to ginger ale. Michel, on a liquor-free diet, thought he would have a companion again. "Oh, now, come on," Nixon urged the Congressman, who heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, "break down a bit." Nixon did. He had a couple of Scotches and water. Then there was a nip of light white Bordeaux with the crab claws and some hearty California Cabernet Sauvignon with the beef. Michel unlimbered his camera and took some snaps of the men on this special excursion into history...
...kept company. Warped personalities didn't fit into the rigidly cast adult mold, so insane people were relegated to the status of childhood, where mischievous imaginations were still tolerable. If the British Isles menaced people's minds as severely as one historian believed, the naive characters must have abounded. Michel Foucault observes...
Like Summer of '42, on which it is cut to pattern, Our Time is made with a combination of calculated modesty and poignance. There is even the same sort of bubble-bath musical score by Michel Legrand to orchestrate the conveniently unhappy ending. The destiny to which Muffy's bad luck leads her is surprising, not because it has been engineered with any tact but because it seems so arbitrary and imposed. Like the climaxes of most melancholy romances, it is never real enough to matter...
...conference did produce one statesmanlike proposal: French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert called for creation of a U.N.-supervised agency that would build up reserve stocks of petroleum and grains. The agency would probably sell those stocks to hard-up nations if supplies got tight or market prices prohibitively high. Jobert's plan could help answer U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's call for an "overall and global" formula to give raw-materials-producing nations a fair price for their products without bankrupting their customers. But careful evaluation of serious plans is not likely to occur in the highly...