Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter and Schmidt have a number of critical issues to discuss, ranging from energy and economics to defense and detente. Perhaps most of all, the two leaders need to improve their personal rapport. Says one Washington policymaker: "Let's face it. Our relations with West Germany have not gone as well as they
...privately applauded Trudeau's efforts to control it. State Department officials expect no significant changes in U.S.-Canada relations as a result of Clark's victory. But they acknowledge that it will take some time for the new Prime Minister to achieve the warm personal rapport that Trudeau had with Jimmy Carter...
Establishing rapport with Tehran remains a problem...
...change brings new relationships. Kirk now has to develop a rapport with cox Susie Peterson. "Ultimately, the stroke relies on the cox, to tell her what position the boat's in. I set the ratio of the stroke; but Susie will tell the women about technical problems, and she calls most of the power tens...
...should he try to apply persuasion or pressure, Carter may get a frosty response from the Thatcher administration. Gone will be the cosy rapport Carter shared with Jim Callaghan, who was very much an Atlanticist and who was even accused at times of being slavishly indulgent to U.S. interests. Gone too will be the close relationship with David Owen, Labour's outgoing Foreign Secretary, and his friend the British Ambassador to Washington, Peter Jay, who as Callaghan's son-in-law can expect his replacement to be one of the first acts of the Conservative government...