Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he made the decision to send Americans to the Persian Gulf, Bush did so in a conference room at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin mountains. Not far away, in a long hallway, a showcase of war mementos greets passers-by. Dominating the scene is a life-size photograph of Bush, the kind that tourists in Washington pay $5 to pose with. But Bush's version, a Christmas gift from the U.S. Army, is framed and has a dozen-odd bullet holes in its head. It was retrieved from the private pistol range of Manuel Noriega...
...such an incursion in the Middle East would probably have caused a fearsome rift between the superpowers. But in the summer of 1990, the Iraqi blitz prompted Washington and Moscow to act in stunning unanimity, each abhorring the raid and demanding, in an unprecedented joint statement, that the invaders retreat. That position was also endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. While all parties were clearly loath to take on the mightiest army in the Arab world -- a force of 1 million fighting men -- the rare convergence of views raised the possibility that Iraq's expansionism can somehow be contained...
Bush made the decision to deploy the Marines on Saturday while monitoring the Middle East situation during a working weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David. The action, observed a White House official, "sends the same message that we sent when we went into Panama. When American lives and interests are at risk, this President will take military action." And while Bush's decision on Liberia was not linked to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, it came at an opportune moment for demonstrating U.S. resolve to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
Bush conferred in Colorado with the vacationing British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. He arranged to return to Washington earlier than planned and abandoned hopes for a restful weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David...
...unravel in 1970, when his first wife died of cancer at 31. With four sons to raise, the eldest only seven, he remarried within a year. Two of his sons developed drug problems, and in 1985 he and his wife temporarily separated and he sought solace in a Christian retreat in a Washington suburb. Rumors that he was having an affair with a 28-year-old secretary were exacerbated when a woman he was with at National Airport screamed that Durenberger had "ruined" her life and knocked him to the floor with her purse. After that incident, Durenberger began giving...