Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While dismissing Poland as "the most tiresome question," Churchill told Stalin: "At present each [Great Britain and the Soviet Union] had a game cock in his hand." When the translator explained the double meaning of Churchill's remark, Stalin retorted with a coarse Georgian sense of humor: "It is difficult to do without cocks...
Haldeman: Dean did make a remark about a "cancer growing on the presidency." Dean also "outlined his role in the January planning meetings and recounted a report he said he made to me regarding the second of those meetings. He felt Magruder was fully aware of the operation, but he was not sure about Mitchell. He said that his only concerns regarding the White House were in relation to the Colson phone call to Magruder, which might indicate White House pressure, and the possibility that Haldeman got some of the fruits of the bugging via Strachan...
...says John J. Wilson, 72, who knows his own mind and does not hesitate to speak it. The habit can get him into trouble, as it did last week when he intemperately referred to Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye as "that little Jap." When incredulous reporters double-checked the remark,* Wilson refused to retract it. "That's just the way I speak," he said. Then, as though Inouye's citizenship were somehow different from his own, he added: "I wouldn't mind being called a little American." Wilson's remarks were not all that surprising...
...emotions. But Inouye apparently enraged him by muttering "What a liar" into a not-yet-dead microphone after some testimony by Ehrlichman. Inouye annoyed the crusty old lawyer still further by asking about Haldeman's involvement in California campaign irregularities in 1962. Then came Wilson's "Jap" remark, which may well have undone whatever his assertive advocacy had achieved. Two days later, he sent a letter of apology to Inouye, but in the court of public opinion, that was too little too late...
...meeting with the President on April 19, 1973. At this meeting, Moore told Nixon that Dean had shown him a list of White House staff members who Dean believed could be indicted for one Watergate offense or another. In the case of Ehrlichman, however, Moore repeated Dean's remark that Ehrlichman's "problem might be involved with the Ellsberg case," a proposition that Moore did not understand at the time...