Word: pasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days of heart-to-heart talks with López Portillo as a long overdue step toward making good the promise of his White House toast. Carter will find his hosts expecting to be treated with far more respect than U.S. Presidents c have generally shown in the I past. "This time," said the conservative daily Novedades in an editorial, "Jimmy Carter and José López Portillo meet as equals, and Mexico will be looking for signs that the U.S. recognizes this fact...
...limp over his ankles, but as he got up to stand by the window, his tall, flat body looked powerful. "It's convenient to make me the fall guy," he said sourly. Close friends say he is really bored now with his energy job and yearns for his past engagement in foreign affairs or national security. One of them called recently to talk about the price of gas, and all Schlesinger wanted to discuss was the Middle East. After being fired by Ford, Schlesinger became Ronald Reagan's principal foreign policy adviser for the six months before...
That is now a concern at least as grave as inflation. Even with the protesting farmers making trouble in Washington these past few days, and the biggest snowstorm in five years diverting the capital's attention, the debate about U.S. strength and resolve is emerging on almost every level...
...Carter even outdid the Senator in calling for new spending by taking issue with his assertion that there had been impressive gains in the amount allocated for mental health research. Taking inflation into account, she pointed out, research spending has declined in the past decade. But Kennedy got in the last word. He promised to study Rosalynn's recommendations carefully and, echoing one of Jimmy Carter's pet campaign phrases, added: "To quote a great American, 'You can depend...
...forthright, if predictable, answers. But I was always escorted by one of the squadron of clean-shaven guards, who wore military uniforms, with helmets and pistols. It took me several minutes to notice the cross that they would burn later that night; it was so large that I walked past it several times, thinking that it was a tree...