Word: protocol
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...like all the others in the hall, but there was no question about who was King. Some world leaders may have charisma, but Faisal emanates a dignity that stamps him as special. He looks older than 68. His face is deeply wrinkled, his eyelids droop. But, said a young protocol officer wearily, "we young men cannot keep up with him." The King stood to receive me in my turn, shook hands, spoke a few words of welcome and motioned me to a seat. He never smiled, though, or changed his facial expression. His answers to my questions...
...images of two singular men-Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. For eight years Nixon was the Vice President. He was not fully trusted by Eisenhower and there was certainly little real affection between them. Even as Vice President, Nixon was a remote and imperial figure, establishing elaborate protocol safeguards as he moved around Congress and the White House...
Ever the pragmatist, Giscard knew that he was isolated, and he accepted a Belgian-Italian compromise. While it gave Wilson essentially what he wanted, the compromise was described in opaque bureaucratese that cleverly disguised its real meaning. According to the protocol, the EEC will "create a correcting mechanism that could prevent during the period of convergence of the economies of the member states the possible development of situations unacceptable for a member state." Translation: if a country's economy goes sour, its budget contribution may be reduced. That ambiguous phraseology protected delicate French sensibilities but, at the same time...
...main meetings in the Salon de 1'Horloge of the Quai d'Orsay; in the past, delegations often numbered 20 or more. There was also a concerted and largely successful effort to ensure a kind of Cabinet secrecy by barring the usual leaks to the press. Protocol was kept to a minimum, and pomp was virtually banned. Giscard even asked his colleagues to wear business suits to a dinner at the Elysée Palace. Considering the place and the occasion, that was almost like saying: Come in T shirts and sneakers...
...curious arrangement came about in the late 19th century, when the New Hebrides represented a kind of no man's land between the British and French colonies in the South Pacific. Neither power showed much interest in them, but as traders from both countries had settled there, a protocol was drawn up in 1906 to provide for a joint Anglo-French administration...