Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship with Reagan: It is very, very good. I was in on all the final Cabinet decisions. But the proof of whether you are a good Vice President comes later, not by trying to show now what influence you have or if you got whom you wanted for the Cabinet. I've got to feel my way along. But I'm beginning to develop what I think is an excellent relationship with Reagan...
These places are Greeneland nonetheless, and this autobiography is proof enough that only he could have lived and imagined them into the public domain they now occupy. The book shows some signs of carelessness. Much of it is composed of a series of introductions Greene wrote for an English edition of his works, and the stitching between these set pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake...
...living proof that those tough old men in the Kremlin often thrive on adversity. A year ago, Moscow was rife with rumors that he was on the brink of retirement if not death, that a faith healer from the Caucasus was treating him for mysterious, possibly terminal ailments, that his colleagues on the Politburo were bypassing or overruling him on key decisions...
...along, the President-elect had made plain that he wanted to fill his Government with individuals whose portfolios were already stamped with success. Amateurs and the unproven ambitious need not apply, though the proof of prior competence need not be in Government service. That meant, as Reagan knew, a step down for some-and too big a step for a few he wanted. But with the naming of five more Cabinet officers and two principal White House aides last week, Reagan's top offices were filled except for a handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade...
This blabber-proof telecast looms as far too rare an occasion to waste only in joy over a trial separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube. While sports fans will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes, for awareness may just be dawning in the Age of Communication that silence is indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about...