Word: respectfully
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Nixon, who was in the White House when the U.S. successfully negotiated the 1972 SALT I antiballistic missile treaty, "has said some reasonable things" on the subject of nuclear policy, argues Cuomo. The Governor thinks that Nixon "would probably have the respect of the Republicans, and he would probably have the respect of the Russians." Would Nixon, 74, be interested in the arduous job? His aides wouldn...
...Senate majority leader during Reagan's first term, the diminutive Tennessean pushed Reagan's tax and spending cuts through the upper chamber with tact and skill, earning the respect even of the President's opponents. Though he is too moderate and conciliatory to please Reagan's hard-right fans for long, the choice of Baker drew wide initial praise. Democratic Senator James Sasser, Baker's onetime colleague from Tennessee, praised the new chief of staff's "pragmatism and reasonableness" and called the selection of Baker a "stroke of genius...
...nearly 200 students and union workers who protested against Coors last Wednesday night did not try to deny him his right. They picketed outside the Science Center, making their case by chanting slogans and distributing informative literature. This "educational picket," as organizers called it, not only displayed a fundamental respect for Coors' right to speak, but also allowed the audience to ask more informed, penetrating questions...
There is no justification for rest. Bookkeepers are not adequate guardians of the President's obligation to act within the law. Reagan's failure to apologize for what--at best--was a profound dereliction of duty makes clear his lack of respect for the idea that, at least in this country, the people are supreme. He acknowledges yielding authority to a secret government but thinks he is only at fault because the secret government was a poor...
...invited John Kenneth Galbraith over to my room for a conversation that has nothing to do with this column, but it will allow me to drop his name and suggest that even in the lowly office of Ibis, I command enough respect to have world-famous ecnomists sprinting to my house in their underwear...