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It is as broker in the Democratic Congress that Nixon counts on Connally. When it gets down to the bargaining stages, Connally will be trying to coax the President's revenue-sharing program past the opposition of Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, a task...
For Scott, acting has always been an antidote to self-hatred. "It was the only avenue of escape I had from myself," he admits. "It's never been difficult to subjugate myself to a part because I don't like myself too well. Acting was, in every sense, my means...
The Taylor mission proved useful; it may, for instance, have muted Vatican criticism of the U.S. lend-lease program to the Soviet Union. Yet experts on Vatican diplomacy insist that only through continuous representation, constantly keeping its national viewpoint before the Pope, can a nation reap any real benefit from...
I stood on the curb, caught on the knife edge between two unhappy and possibly hopeless worlds. Behind me was a bank window, offering joyless, useless prizes for opening an account. Across the street were the kids, ramming their way into the mad jumble of Bryant Park. Later, the militants...
Even in the violence-prone Philippines, there had never been anything like it. First, as he emerged with his wife from Manila's Legislative Building, where he had just delivered his state of the nation address, President Ferdinand Marcos was greeted with a shower of bottles, sticks and placards...