Word: praetorianism
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...Henry Kissinger. Because of their ancestry?and their closemouthed habits?the Teutonic trio is now known as "the Berlin Wall" in the White House pressroom. One Administration official calls them "all the king's Krauts"; another speaks of "the throne nursers." Kissinger refers to the other two as "the Praetorian Guard," and Haldeman and Ehrlichman are widely called "Von Haldeman" and "Von Ehrlichman"?or simply "the Germans." The nicknames are used by officials inside the White House and out, sometimes in jest, sometimes in bitterness. While Attorney General John Mitchell is not technically part of the White House staff...
...House walls. Very few have succeeded in doing so. They start their administrations fresh from the political wars, which have a tendency to keep men closely tied to the facts of life, but it is only a matter of time until the White House assistants close in like a Praetorian Guard...
...salvaged more talent, including Encyclopedist Denis Diderot and one Franç Marie Arouet, the talented son of a notary who later called himself Voltaire. "Everyone who carries a name in France has spent his early youth in Louis-le-grand," gloated the Archbishop of Paris -charitably including that perverted praetorian, the Marquis de Sade. The pattern continued despite the suppression of the Jesuits in 1762, when the jealous Sorbonne swallowed the school. During the French Revolution, the school doubled as a jail for "enemies" of the Revolution, including Old Grad Robespierre, on his way to the guillotine. So combustible...
...second most populous state. A resident of Los Angeles, he has made Southern California his undisputed Democratic barony. In the California assembly, where he is chairman of the key Ways & Means Committee, he has surrounded himself with a tough and loyal group of followers known as Unruh's "Praetorian Guard." Last week, with a majority of the assembly already pledged in writing to support him, Unruh seemed certain to become Sacramento's next speaker. All that remained was to remove Incumbent Speaker Ralph Brown-and Big Daddy felt sure that he could arrange for Brown to be appointed...
Observing Unruh's rise to power, Pat Brown has begun to show signs of anxiety. Last week he nervously summoned members of the Praetorian Guard to the mansion to warn them that he would not necessarily go along with Unruh's plan to take over the speakership. But what Big Daddy wants, Big Daddy usually gets-and what he wants is the speakership as a means of extending his political rule over the entire state...