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...skills. He is more nimble, mentally and verbally, than Reagan when confronted with an unexpected question or when his memory of governmental detail is suddenly tested. His impromptu replies may be the clearest and most carefully couched of any recent President's?a comforting quality in an office where offhand remarks can rattle the world. But Carter's mental agility does not necessarily mean he is the wiser man. His mind readily grasps detail, orders the options and focuses down on a solution to a given problem. But it often fails to place that problem, or its solution...
...When his running mate George Bush offered, "He did not say that," a relieved Reagan piped up, "George says I didn't say it." In fact, Reagan did say it (that we should have "governmental" relations with Taiwan), and he said it in an almost offhand manner in Cleveland several months...
...morosely at the tiny float of his line in the murk of the Moscow River. I rehearsed behind him, peering into my pocket dictionary, and when I thought I had the word right, I put on a bright smile and, leaning against the stone balustrade, I asked in an offhand way, "Bolshoye?" This is the word for big, and was a question in reference to the size of the fish he hoped to extract from the river. He turned very slowly and looked at me from under a crumpled hat as if I were daft. I backed up behind...
...ruling decided that the police had not infringed on Innis' rights. In the majority opinion, Justice Potter Stewart observed that the patrolmen had no reason to think Innis was unusually disoriented or particularly susceptible to observations about the welfare of the handicapped children; the officers' "offhand remarks" therefore should not be viewed as a form of interrogation or its "functional equivalent." Two of the dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, felt the remarks should indeed have been read as an appeal to the suspect's conscience. But Justice John Paul Stevens went further, rejecting the majority...
...abashed by the buildup, LaRouche takes the microphone. He starts slowly, with the expected discussion of massive vote fraud and the remarks about the nastiness of the press, including an offhand reference to "Katharine Meyer Graham's Washington Post." A comparison of himself to DeGaulle. Then the speech starts to build; and if some of the words resemble those of other candidates, the message doesn't. "The U.S. has a moral destiny to fulfull among other nations, on the behalf of civilization." From the audience, an echoing "Amen." "We have to start from finding what our mission is, and then...