Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colson denies that he said he would run over his grandmother for Nixon. But he admits that he might as well have made the remark. His loyalty to Nixon was total. Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman once warned him: "Richard Nixon will use anybody. Remember that. When he doesn't need you, he'll discard you." But Colson thought he was somehow exempt from this treatment...
...world. The hates spring from Wriston's sharp tongue, which lashes at almost everyone in sight. Even one of his admirers formerly at Citibank says, with only slight exaggeration: "He is arrogant, flip and runs the place with a needle. Every comment is a wise-ass remark...
...knees; and she called for a man and she caused him to shave off the seven locks ..." Nothing in the 18th Amendment prohibited the consumption of liquor, only its manufacture, sale or transportation. As for the cake eating, it was the haughty Duchess of Tuscany who made the remark circa...
...cynicism he sees everywhere. He says he cannot remember a time when the country was so full of fear. He recalls how people sneered at his call for the "politics of joy" in 1968 and concedes that it probably did not suit the climate. He was struck by a remark British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made to him a few years ago, that sometimes a country needs a leader who can seem more like a family doctor. It helps Humphrey understand why people receive him so cheerfully now. He says, "I'm not a hater...
...notorious phrase, "any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice." At the same time, he also suggested that "the dictatorship be diluted and democracy be expanded," a remark that was later interpreted as a direct challenge to Mao's belief that the party's reins of power should never be relaxed...