Word: reads
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...think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern, and outcommand almost anybody you'd care to name, including Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and yes, even Franklin Roosevelt. I don't know that he ever read Niccolo Machiavelli or La Rochefoucauld, but he practiced what they preached...
...year ago, Baker and the President worked out an understanding on objectives. Baker drew up a battle plan in Santa Barbara, which Reagan read and signed, one of those supersecret documents that archivists someday will exhume from the recesses of the presidential vaults. "In general, we pretty much did what we set out to do," says Baker...
...deliver a bitter, blistering attack on George Bush. Often hailed as a hero, Haig also has a sinister mystique: while a deputy in the White House, he helped manage the secret wiretapping program ordered by Nixon and Kissinger, and he made regular trips to the FBI to read the transcripts. In Europe, where he performed masterfully as commander of NATO, Haig is revered. He may be the only American besides Jerry Lewis the French truly like. But in America, according to the TIME poll taken last week, 46% of Republicans said they had a "generally unfavorable" impression of him, compared...
FOOTNOTE: *The members include Brady, chairman of Dillon Read; James Cotting, chairman of Navistar International; Robert Kirby, chairman of Capital Guardian Trust; Robert Stein, chairman of Dreyfus; and John Opel, former chairman...