Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans sent to stop their revolution, are beyond the reach of debtors and creditors alike. It is more a matter of earning the astonishing friendship so many Vietnamese have expressed towards an American people that let its government commit barbarities in its name, or of recovering the self-respect endangered by 15 years in which politicians appealed instead to national pride in order to justify...
...forces into Hué, one-fifth of the city's population of nearly 200,000 had fled before the Communists seized the old imperial capital. Dozens of planes and helicopters had been abandoned at Hué's airport. Aging Queen Mother Doan Huy, 86, was treated with respect by the arriving soldiers, the reporter said, but part of her palace was converted into a hospital. Soup kitchens were set up in public squares and even bicycles were commandeered to bring in food...
...Kissinger continues to have the ear-and the respect-of the President, who recently called him "a person of unbelievable wisdom." Kissinger, in fact, is more comfortable with Ford than he was with Nixon, who delighted in occasionally deflating his foreign policy adviser. Ford is straight-arrow all the way. When he finds Kissinger expendable, the Secretary will be the first to know. For the moment, the President does not blame him for the debacle in Viet Nam or the setback in the Middle East. A top aide says that Ford still believes Kissinger has "an inner sense of strategy...
GEORGE BUSH, 50. Ford's second choice for Vice President, the handsome Bush is currently chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. He served two vigorous years as U.S. Representative to the United Nations, where he developed a knack for negotiation and earned the respect of fellow delegates. As Republican national chairman, he made friends in all factions of the party...
...fans against me," he says. "I want to do everything I can to get them against me more. When they're yelling at me, I really get into the match. I guess I'm trying to show them that no matter how much they hate me, they have to respect the way I play...