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...spent a similar week with Harry Truman in the White House in 1951, scrutinized the President for any telltale "signals of stress under the calm exterior." But none were evident. The author speculates that Ford has so long been on the losing political side in the "national poker game" as a minority Congressman that he has learned to mask his feelings completely...
...rest of that inaugural field was equally amazing. A Traveco Mobile Home finished in 51 hours, equipped with special racing tires, a chef, and 200 gallon gas tanks. The crew, while not sharing driving, had an intense poker game going on all across the Kansas heartlands, the Arizona desert, and into the first finishing point, a parking lot at Redondo Beach...
...good try. He did all that was humanly possible." A top official in Canada's Department of External Affairs agreed, "He came closer than anybody in a quarter of a century toward an agreement in the area." An editorial in the Guardian reminded Britons, "No one wins every poker game, not even Metternich, not even Henry Kissinger." Egyptians and Israelis generally retained a great admiration...
Given to well-worn tweeds and a dry intellectual wit, Saxon relaxes by playing the recorder in a Baroque chamber group or sitting down with friends for an evening of poker. An avid gardener, he is getting ready to transplant his 30 carefully tended bonsai trees from Los Angeles to the magnificent hillside house north of Berkeley that-along with a $59,500 salary-goes with the president...
Left alone, the frame-tale would be quaintly implausible, but the chapters devoted to golf and poker with the boys (errant clerics all) have a disconcerting tacked-on quality. Not that they are without point...