Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tumultuous presidency. He does so not in a court of law, as did his highest aides. Nor at a Senate impeachment trial?he resigned to avoid that. Instead, nearly three years after a helicopter lifted him off the White House lawn and into seclusion at his San Clemente retreat, he appears in a four-part TV series, The Nixon Interviews. One obvious reason: he will get $600,000 and a share of the show's worldwide profits. Another reason: his hope that he can change the people's perception of him, perhaps even resume a responsible role in public life...
...POINT, near the end, Fredrik tells Desiree that he should never have come to her mother's countryside retreat "to flirt with rescue" when he had no intention of being saved. Whatever its intentions, this production's own flirtation with rescue ends up less successful than stuffy old Fredrik's. On second thought, even the summer night might not have been kind...
...example of the incompetence of Mobutu's army, Lukas said, was a battle in which the army drove their trucks backwards up a hill so that they could beat a hasty retreat if necessary...
Carter's aides had hoped that his mild anti-inflation program and his retreat on the $50 tax rebate would help boost businessmen's confidence in the Administration. That does not seem to have happened. Businessmen were generally happy with Carter's continued rejection of controls and his dumping of the rebates. Said Wall Street Investment Banker Sherman Lewis of Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "It shows that maybe he is a little slow, but he is smart. The guy is willing to admit when he is wrong...
...blame, wresting admiration finally from a dreadful mistake. In the fall and winter of 1965, Lyndon Johnson, enervated by his gallbladder removal, beset by the rising horror of Viet Nam, let himself be guided by his melancholy nature into the deception and self-pity that eventually forced his retreat to Texas. Oddly, Richard Nixon's time came in triumph. After his victory in 1972, he went to Camp David and there, in lonely anger, decided to reconstitute his Government by firing loyal workers and convinced himself that his position made him invincible to the Watergate investigators. And Jerry Ford...