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...Ford's constituency: liberals and big-city ethnic groups. He also enjoys uniquely close relations with both business and labor and can attract the kind of talent needed to cope with Ford's biggest problem: inflation. Despite past battles with party conservatives, he is not likely to offend many people today. He has made at least a token peace with the right. Moreover, he is no longer the political threat he used to be. Age is fast removing him from contention; Ford plans to run for the presidency in 1976, and Rockefeller will...
This program contains something to offend almost everyone: liberals and conservatives; businessmen, workers and farmers; and several departments of the Government itself...
Although Kissinger promised to help, the Kalbs say, he did not want to offend the Arabs or the Russians, and he spent the rest of the week in a sometimes delicate, often brutal balancing act in Washington while the fighting proceeded. Kissinger is depicted as constantly goading Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and the Pentagon to arrange to send supplies to Israel and implying to Dinitz that he was fighting Israel's battles in the U.S. bureaucracy...
...deeply religious Baptist. "I am a poor sinner and nothing at all," he likes to say, "but Jesus Christ is my all and all." When players criticize him behind his back, Dark's reaction is: "Great peace have they which love Thy law, and nothing shall offend them...
...with the bourgeois world, a Soviet delegation was invited to a meeting held on some islands where stray dogs were sent to die. In other words, the Soviet delegation was being discriminated against by being invited there. In those days the capitalists never missed a chance to embarrass or offend the Soviet Union. I was afraid maybe this Camp David was the same sort of place where people who were mistrusted could be kept in quarantine, like a leper colony...