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Cohen was able to enlist Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, who is respected for his knowledge of defense issues, and Republican Charles Percy of Illinois, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. When Reagan's chief arms-control negotiator, Edward Rowny, protested to Cohen that build-down would only complicate matters in Geneva, the Senator asked: "How about no MX?" Replied Rowny: "I need the MX to get a treaty." Said Cohen: "You need build-down...
...later (1946-58) commanded Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, which is responsible for security of the royal family; in London. As England's premier sleuth in the 1940s, Burt collared Traitors William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") and John Amery and Atomic Spies Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. Quiet and affable, Burt had an uncanny knack for extracting incriminating information from suspects. In his memoirs, he wrote of the typical quarry: "In many cases, he is only too eager to talk. Nine times out of ten a man is the hero of his own stories...
...Jackson," said Sam Nunn, his Democratic colleague from Georgia, "truly was a giant in the Senate." He had decisively won six elections to the Senate, the latest last November, and had been the de facto leader of his party's conservative wing. Jackson felt that his onetime comrades had turned too easy on Communism, or in some cases too hard on social programs, while he remained the archetypal cold war liberal, determined that the U.S. spend generously on guns and butter. "I don't worry about ideologies," he said. "I've been called a Communist, a socialist...
...however, looks back and pronounces his existence weary, stale, flat and, above all, unprofitable. He says he is "tired of traveling, traveling, traveling, just to make a living." He waves off the idea of settling in to run a large resident theater: "If I had the worries that Trevor Nunn does at the Royal Shakespeare Company, I would absolutely open my veins in the bath." He resents the very existence of critics: "Twenty years of being reconstituted in newsprint has worn me out." With extravagantly pouty self-mockery, he sums up: "My life has consisted of asking people to dress...
...second letter went to Senators Charles Percy and William Cohen, both Republicans, and Sam Nunn, who carries considerable clout on military matters with his Democratic colleagues. Their major interest was to get the President to endorse the idea of a "build-down" in nuclear missiles. As outlined by Cohen in a newspaper article last January, this plan would have each side dismantle two existing warheads every time it deployed a new one. Reagan liked the idea so much that he called the surprised Cohen to suggest that the concept be refined...