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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most popular Democrat in the country, yet he sometimes seems strangely isolated. One day last week he stood alone in the kitchen of his house in McLean, Va., turning a couple of steaks in the broiler. His red-checked shirt was open to the waist of his khaki slacks, revealing a thick mat of hair, now graying. The huge house echoed with memories, but now it was empty and still. Kennedy's wife had been living in Boston, away from the family for more than a year, and his children were at Cape Cod for the summer...
...away from her family. Although close friends say her recent disclosures offended him, Kennedy-who did not get to read the stories in advance-says that is not so. "Our family has always kept things private," he says, "but once Joan decided it was best for her to talk openly about the problem, I thought it was very brave." Her honesty, in fact, had benefits for both of them. Now everything was in the open; there would be no more questions about where Joan was and how she was. Some politicians, including those at the White House, viewed the Kennedy...
...Such actions," reports TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, "partially muzzle what had once been proclaimed an open Administration. On the other hand, the White House has suffered extensively from too much contradictory talk from too many high officials. Though he quakes at the notion of becoming known as 'the Enforcer,' Rafshoon does perform that function to a limited extent, as he tries to get everyone marching in the same direction on sensitive questions...
...Washington Sept. 4 and go directly to Camp David. Begin may arrive a day or so earlier. There will be no preliminary gathering of foreign ministers, and the delegations will be small. Each head of government will bring three principal advisers and a few other aides. Carter will open the session by conferring with Sadat and Begin individually. He will then chair the first trilateral meeting. No time limit has been set for the talks. "They could last two, four, even ten days," says one official. "Whatever is required." The best guess is two or three days...
...year-old from the poster is speaking now. "You have to learn where the buttons are that do something. Certain things have been very gratifying -- opening a clinic in a housing project, keeping schools open after hours --these things make a difference in peoples' lives. Keeping peoples' heads from being broken! (she is recalling Cambridge's more radical decade, during which she was mayor and city councilwoman...