Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also called former President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of his predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, "a great mistake...
...most vitriolic of the polemics was an extended "open letter" in Izvestia written by S.L. Lipavsky, a former dissident, whose claims were accompanied by an unsigned expose on U.S. espionage in Moscow. The articles accused the U.S. embassy's current first secretary, Joseph Presel, and his predecessor, Melvyn Levitsky, of heading a spy ring that persuaded leading dissidents to provide classified defense material for the Central Intelligence Agency. Curiously, the Americans and their alleged accomplices-Engineers Vladimir Slepak and Anatoli Shcharansky-are Jewish. In talks with Western newsmen, the two engineers promptly denied the allegations. So did State Department...
...Lance has liberally delegated authority, unlike his predecessor, James Lynn, who pored over every budget detail. Lance has turned most of the day-to-day supervision over to Deputy Director James Mclntyre, who served as Georgia's budget director under Carter. Says Lance: "I don't want to make any decisions someone else can make. I'll wait and deal with the tough ones." Informal, he sometimes answers his own telephone. Says he: "I'll talk to anyone. It's important for me to be accessible...
...early shift of eight hours, took a two-hour nap in the late afternoon, then stepped into a cold shower that pummeled him back to consciousness, after which he worked eight more hours. Richard Nixon by that measure was rather lazy, but he was so intimidated by his predecessor that his staff strove frantically to cover up the time he spent resting or brooding...
...lacked the dazzle of his flamboyant predecessor, but his low-key, almost reticent manner and his quiet sense of competence impressed his hosts. By his very visit, so early in the new Carter Administration, he restored momentum to the long-stalled peacemaking process. At Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport he proclaimed that his would "not be an easy task nor one which is quickly achieved." But he arrived in the Middle East when hopes for peace were higher than at any time since...