Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catoctin Mountain retreat. Burns and McCracken were there; so were Shultz and his deputy, Caspar Weinburger, and the two Teutons who guard Nixon's gates, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Peter Peterson, a presidential aide for international economic affairs, joined the sessions. Volcker and Speechwriter Bill Safire sneaked across Washington to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where they boarded a helicopter for Camp David. John Connally, who had no way of knowing that the pressure on the dollar would propel him into prominence so soon, had just gone to his Texas ranch for a vacation. He jetted hastily back...
...city and for the country that I can no longer work within it." He gave a litany of urban troubles-"men without jobs, families without hope, indecent housing, blighted neighborhoods, crowded hospitals, crime, poverty, polarization." He excoriated the Nixon Administration for the continuing war and for a "retreat from the Bill of Rights" through censorship, wiretapping and the illegal arrests of Mayday demonstrators. Nixon, he said, refuses to impose wage and price controls to check inflation, ignores the poor while seeking a $250 million loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft. "I regret," he said, "that new directions cannot emerge from...
...last of his many mistresses, the Vicomtesse de Bonnemains, began giving him nightly doses of morphine to ease the pain of old wounds; as a result, he grew both melancholy and erratic. Yet, Harding shows, it was soldierly scruple that really lay behind Boulanger's retreat from power...
There was some reason for the Government's retreat on the Austin busing question; the HEW plan had some technical weaknesses. Still, Richardson thought he had persuaded Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell to carry out the busing decision (TIME, Aug. 9). He was informed of the President's move at the last minute, and carried no personal plea or protest to Nixon...
...early last spring, the Kremlin evidently believed that Yugoslavia might be ripped asunder over its regional problems. So too did many Western observers. Tito summoned the country's leaders to his retreat at Brioni Island in the Adriatic and ordered them to stop playing on old hatreds. He stumped the country, at one point told a crowd: "The papers write that as long as Tito is there, he will somehow manage to hold it together, but if he should go, everything will fall apart. What a sorry affair if all this depends on only one man!" Thanks largely...