Word: protocol
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University protocol requires that the deans tender their resignations when a new President takes office. It is then up to the President to decide whether to accept the resignations, but usually if any changes are made, the President eases the dean out of office in a round-about, informal manner...
...reporters that he did not speak for the State Department and that he did not disagree with its attitude toward Greece. The conclusion in Washington was that no one had asked Stans to signal a significant shift in U.S. diplomatic relations with Papadopoulos. Stans, going beyond the bounds of protocol or policy, was on his own-and might well find his reception on his return to Washington somewhat chillier than his welcome in Athens...
...show at all. And on the night of the concert, Teddy turned up 45 minutes late at the table where Foreign Minister Scheel and Ambassador Rush were waiting for him. The German press took note. The Silddeutsche Zeitung referred to the Kennedys' "lack of feeling for time and protocol." Wrote influential Columnist Walter Henkels in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "A subtle wall of estrangement and aloofness seemed to have arisen between Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan on the one hand, and the Bonn people on the other...
What did happen last Friday night is best described as a transgression of the laws of protocol and order. People shouted and screamed. They reacted clamorously to what was going on: if there can be any charge, it is disorderly conduct, or riot, or creating a public nuisance; denying freedom of speech simply does not describe what happened...
...could have stopped a congressional drive to legislate mandatory import quotas on textiles and many other foreign products. But the Japanese offer did not satisfy Nixon's Southern supporters in the textile industry, and some White House aides were incensed by what they saw as Mills' protocol-dodging efforts to run his own State Department...