Word: protocolic
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Chou could display an extraordinary personal graciousness. When junior members of our party took ill, he would visit them. Despite the gap in our protocol rank, he insisted that our meetings alternate between my residence and the Great Hall of the People. The Chinese seemed to regard him with special reverence, to see in him of all their leaders a special human quality. On a visit in late 1975 I asked a young interpreter about Chou's health; tears brimmed in her eyes as she told me he was gravely ill. It was no accident that...
...invited to a governmental authority. I saw Mao five times. On each occasion I was summoned suddenly. On one visit Mao expressed interest in meeting my wife Nancy. The fact that she was shopping presented no obstacle to our hosts. She was hustled out of a shop by a protocol officer who seemed to know exactly where she was and brought...
...Lord Mountbatten's funeral. Iowa Catholics have been put on the guest list for the White House reception for Pope John Paul II next month. Carter last week named two Hispanics to top posts: Edward Hidalgo as Secretary of the Navy and Abelardo Lopez Valdez as chief of protocol...
...There were about a dozen people in the basement at the time and four have come forth and said that they saw him: Mark was one, Johnny C. was another, I was one and another witness-a party person who had been connected with the Ford White House, a protocol type." Had anyone actually seen Jordan snort cocaine? "Johnny C. was the one who turned him on, and I saw him take a hit in each nostril. It was next to the pinball machines...
...very difficult to do the things that I think are in the interest of the country and also maintain the standards of protocol and diplomacy ... I really don't feel a bit sorry for anything that I have done. And I could not say to anybody that given the same situation, I wouldn't do it again almost exactly the same...