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Mondale's unity drive fared much better with former pri mary foe George McGovern, who not only endorsed him but predicted that the Minnesotan might turn out to be "the best President since Franklin Roosevelt." That is the kind of talk Mondale would like to hear from all of his party's leaders...
...statesman pursued his craft with such success under so many different masters. Gromyko has served the Soviet state through all of its tortuous transformations, from Stalinist despotism to the vicissitudes of the Andropov and Chernenko years. He has dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 14 Secretaries of State. Says a diplomat who meets often with Gromyko: "He remembers not because he read a brief or a book, but as often as not because he was there in person...
...alone arm in arm among the geometrically perfect rows of graves, they paid silent homage to the American dead. At the grave of an unknown soldier, the First Lady placed some flowers; later she laid a spray of carnations and blue irises at the tombstone of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of his presidential namesake, who landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division and died of a heart attack one month later...
...books' capsule architectural notes (color-coded blue) on outstanding buildings, a subject often neglected by other guides. The NYC Access entry on the design of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel ("an understated and elegantly detailed composition") reports such esoteric details as the underground railroad station from which Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques, by Daily News Food Editor Arthur Schwartz...
...Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There is no such thing as a good Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss"?a phrase the listening reporter bowdlerized to "warm spit...