Word: oval
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...world has, or thought it had, become accustomed to change in Eastern Europe, where every week brings developments that would have seemed unbelievable a short while earlier. Nonetheless, the opening of the Wall caught it off guard. President George Bush, who summoned reporters into the Oval Office Thursday afternoon, declared himself "very pleased" but seemed oddly subdued. Aides attributed that partly to his natural caution, partly to uncertainty about what the news meant, largely to a desire to do or say nothing that might provoke a crackdown in East Germany. As the President put it, "We're handling...
Later, in the Oval Office, he sighed that the Wall would stay until the Soviets tired of it. "We could have sent tanks over and knocked the Wall down," he mused. "What then? They build another one back a hundred yards? We knock that down, then...
This year's game takes place at the Stadium tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. When Penn last defeated the Crimson on its home turf (a 38-27 decision), Richard Nixon was in the Oval Office...
...moment come and go last week in which raw U.S. power should have been used quickly and decisively? It is one of the oldest and most difficult questions in the two centuries of the American presidency. Almost every occupant of the Oval Office has had to answer it at some time. In our age, Jimmy Carter hesitated on Iran and was dumped. Ronald Reagan's boldness in Libya and Grenada elevated his presidency...
...President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico, who was in the White House Tuesday morning to meet with Bush. As the coup unfolded, Bush briefed Salinas on the developments; not surprisingly, the President did not do the same for General Dmitri Yazov, the Soviet Defense Minister, who visited the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon...