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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a lesson we have to learn and it's a tough one," Donato said. "We have to just grin and bear...
...know. Many hours of our talks with Admiral Crowe were devoted to this topic. Quite recently the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Carlisle Trost said that everything should be done to keep the naval problem secondary. He doesn't want these negotiations, and he is not the only one. As for other concessions, they were made on both sides. If someone believes that we are eliminating more intermediate-range missiles than the U.S. and that this is a defeat for the Soviet Union, let them. We do not consider that we have lost anything from the point of view...
...than life, but since his death 16 years ago, he has been getting bigger. The growth spurt is due largely to the diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic...
...Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write a very illuminating chapter on his military career in Los Angeles," she later revealed to a friend, "with photographs, letters from voice teachers, and photographers who tried to teach him which was the best...
...shops with curious names -- Octopus Army, Short Kiss, Good Day House -- that offer a variety of identities. There are button-down collars and plaid pants for the preppie look, floral prints and batiks for the Third World ethnic look, tennis and soccer equipment for the ultra-fit look. One store sells nothing but Batman gear for the Caped Crusader look...