Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howard, who says he is in his "mid-40's," says he would never accept another role in a television series. "Let's say the business convened together and said 'we're never going to offer a television series again to Ken Howard," he says, adding his response, "Well, that's fine, because I don't ever really want to do one again...
...impeached President Kennedy after the Cuban Missile Crisis. During those 13 days in October 1962, President Kennedy reassured the American public that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded, and a year later the Jupiter missiles were removed as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. In his later memoirs, Robert Kennedy wrote...
...reaction to Gorbachev's proposal was highly favorable. "This is a real breakthrough," said a spokesman for Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German Foreign Minister. The Kohl government, once opposed to the total removal of missiles, was now solidly behind a deal. NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington called the offer a "substantial step forward." Secretary Shultz felt there was "some prospect, perhaps pretty good, we can get something worked...
Certainly the exquisite timing of Gorbachev's proposal is suspect. Coming just two days after the release of the Tower commission's scathing review of the Reagan Administration's bungled arms-for-hostages policy, the offer was sure to appear attractive to an embattled President. Moreover, the announcement seemed timed to exploit disagreements within the NATO alliance over Washington's broad interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty...
...look. Even if we win, do we lose? Are they going to say we will be in the confessional next?" He ultimately approved the bugging, but insisted the conversations could be recorded only when agents watching the judge's chambers had good reason to suspect that the visitor would offer a bribe. The case, known as Operation Greylord, resulted in the conviction of seven judges and 17 other public officials...