Word: nixon
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...Presidents. A gifted interpreter who speaks seven foreign languages,* he helped arrange the 1970 negotiations between Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese that led to the final U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. A year later, in another secret mission for Kissinger, he took part in the preparations for Richard Nixon's historic opening to China. As an Ambassador-at-Large for the Reagan Administration, Walters has visited 108 countries. Many of these tasks were performed far from the glare of publicity. Last February, when the President named him to the highly visible post of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Walters...
...move by Volcker would, of course, leave open the powerful position of Federal Reserve chairman. The rumor mill is already putting forth candidates for the position. One is Secretary of State George Shultz, who has a strong economics background and served as Treasury Secretary under Nixon. Another prospect is Donald Regan, White House chief of staff and former Treasury Secretary. Washington speculation has it that First Mate Nancy Reagan wants the politically maladroit Regan out of the White House. The gossips have taken things from there and now have Regan headed for the Fed. Stay tuned...
Sincerity, that most elusive of virtues, is the one thing that only an individual can truly know, and simultaneously the one virtue that cannot be expressed simply, unlike so many cardboard cinema emotions. What really could be more phony than Richard Nixon's claim, straining for the sincerity he would never achieve, that "I am not a crook"? He who doth protest ... dispenses with any chance of conveying more than the ersatz...
...State Dean Rusk tells how, as an Army colonel in Washington in 1945, he faced the problem of dividing responsibility between Soviet and American troops in liberating Japanese-occupied Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, but privately "he used to grit his teeth (and say), 'You know, Dick, I would never have approved a plan without air cover...
Newsweek reveals Nixon's significant role in the Reagan reelection campaign. Germond and Witcover unveil their requisite scoop, that Mondale's campaign staff engaged in some utterly irrelevant shenanaigans that bore a passing resemblance to l'affaire Watergate. To simplify, a Mondale staffer stole and then returned a book tabulating the flow of Pennsylvania labor money through the campaign apparatus to the ostensibly unaffiliated Mondale delegate committees. Though Germond and Witcover lack the requisite irony to appreciate it, the episode says much more about the idiocy of campaign finance law than it does about the ethics of the Mondale campaign...