Word: rapport
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Leonard continues to maintain that the research institute and the Afro Department will develop a rapport as a matter of course. In a letter sent to Guinier last winter, Bok took essentially the same position. "I find it difficult to assume," Bok wrote, "that such an institute will not develop a close relationship with the department...
...during the Nixon Administration the room had been built over the old White House swimming pool. He jokingly suggested that he might take steps to remedy that mistake. "You know my great interest in aquatic activities," he said. But, more seriously: "We will have, I trust, the kind of rapport and friendship we've had in the past...
...Good Rapport. In the early '50s Korff became what he calls "a smalltown rabbi" while living in Rehoboth, Mass. Last summer, after his retirement (he suffers from a heart ailment), Korff determined to counter what he considered unfair attacks on Nixon. Starting with $1,000 that he had put aside for his and his wife's vacation, the rabbi began soliciting contributions and taking out ads supporting the President in some 25 newspapers round the country. Korff claims that his committee now has a membership of 2 million Americans who have given $1,000,000 to the cause...
...President and the rabbi seem to have developed a good rapport. At one point, the rabbi says, he told the President: "Had I been you, I would have made a bonfire and burned the tapes." Nixon's reply: "Where were you eight months...
...hopes to work with the handicapped and believes that his blindness will aid him in establishing an unusual rapport with his patients. "A handicapped Viet Nam veteran might wonder how a blind doctor could relate to his experiences in battle," he explains. "Well, maybe I have had some similar experiences in Philadelphia, just crossing Broad Street...