Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not discuss the position the department offered him but said he is "trying to work out a relationship where I can help them out with consulting work...
...fearing for his safety, would resist letting her only surviving son run the risk of assassination. Another report was that Joan, who has been living in Boston apart from her husband and has undergone treatment for alcoholism, might strenuously object to any new public attention being forced on their relationship. Kennedy, however, attended his wife's 43rd birthday party in Hyannis Port on Labor Day weekend, and there suddenly were reports of a possible reconciliation...
Whatever the relationship between a President and his Vice President, the tension between their two jealously protective staffs is inevitably worse. For several weeks, some of Jimmy Carter's aides have been complaining in off-the-record talks to reporters that Walter Mondale is not taking his work seriously enough and perhaps should be dropped as Carter's running mate next year. Mondale's angry aides have responded with equally anonymous claims that their boss had opposed some of the President's more controversial recent actions and was dismayed at the ineptitude of Carter...
...November 1977, thus produced mixed results. The meetings on Mount Carmel, a setting that offered the participants a soothing panoramic view of Haifa harbor, reaffirmed the underlying strength of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty. Despite strong differences in attitude and priorities, Sadat and Begin gave every indication that their relationship is now rooted in friendship and respect. In fact, some diplomats are convinced that after months of occasional disappointments and persistent distrust, the two men have grown genuinely fond of each other...
...Dave's mother, bemused, humors his irate father with lines like, "Well, we could strangle him in his sleep." Dad, played by Paul Dooley, keeps up a blustering manner with his family, making those rare moments when he lets out some real emotion very powerful. Occasionally the father-son relationship lapses into Mayberry RFD sappiness, but altogether this is the most believable family since "Leave It to Beaver." It's enough to make you believe in middle America...