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...message arrived too late. Nixon had the letter prepared for his signature without waiting for my comments. What made the final typed letter irreversible was that Nixon added to it a handwritten postscript: "Mrs. Nixon joins me in sending our best personal regards to Mrs. Brezhnev and to you." In its absence the letter might have been retyped with my suggested changes. The Soviets recognize a windfall when they see it; within hours an acknowledgement from Brezhnev arrived in Washington. History will not record that I resisted many grants of authority. This one I resented bitterly; "full powers" can inhibit...
...every form of spiritual torment," he said. "But the most dreadful tragedy that can befall him is and will remain the tragedy of the bedroom." Tolstoy went so far as to write a book advocating celibacy, The Kreutzer Sonata, but his wife had what she angrily called "the real postscript." Not long after publication, she became pregnant...
...letter from his pocket and read the words of eight-year-old Peter Sweeney, a second-grader in Rockville Centre, N.Y., "I hope you get well quick or you might have to make a speech in your pajamas." Reagan let the laughter subside, then read Peter's postscript: "If you have to make a speech in your pajamas, I warned you." More laughter. The letter, part of a class project, had been picked out of mountains of mail by Chief Speechwriter Ken Khachigian, but no one on Reagan's staff knew that the President had decided to read...
...hostility and pressures). Meanwhile, the population of Vietnam, North and South, faces the prospect of oppression as well as hunger and poverty until the end of the century under a regime which puts its interests far above those of the people, judging by all available official pronouncements. A tragic postscript to a tragic war. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Assistant Professor In Sino-Vietnamese History
...just as a postscript to the bad news, Harvard's top defenseman Mark Fusco appeared to reinjure his knee during first period play, and suffered from a lack of mobility the rest of the way. Fusco is not using crutches, but he is limping somewhat. The extent of the injury will have to wait until an examination this afternoon...