Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that note, the leaders adjourned for a small ceremonial lunch?langouste, pate de foie gras, noix de veau Orloff and three French wines. Jackie sat at De Gaulle's right, charmed him with her careful, schoolbook French. When he rose to toast his visitors, De Gaulle again spoke in austere tones, but veteran observers of his methods noted a rare, genuine warmth as he told the Kennedys: "You saw this morning how happy Paris was to see you. I do not need to add anything to this...
...last day of his Vienna visit, Jack Kennedy rose early to bone up for the morning's session with Khrushchev, then escorted Jackie to 9 o'clock Mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral. About the same time, Khrushchev solemnly laid a wreath of red carnations at the base of the Russian war memorial in Schwarzenbergplatz, stood with bared head bowed for nearly five minutes before the marble column. Then, just after 10, Kennedy and his advisers drove up to the grey, stuccoed Soviet embassy for a lunch and final matching of wits on nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin. "I greet...
...White House, emphasizing the importance of the trip, gave him a hero's welcome: John Kennedy dispatched a brace of helicopters to Andrews Air Force Base for L.B.J. and his Lady Bird, ordered out the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps for a greeting ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. That done, Johnson withdrew with the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Kennedy's study for a 45-minute briefing on what he had learned...
Kennedy exploded. Earlier he had seriously considered sending in federal troops, had reassured King by phone that he was safe in the church. Kennedy's voice rose as he worked over Patterson: "Have the general call me. I want him to say it to me. I want to hear a general of the U.S. Army say he can't protect Martin Luther King." Patterson backed down, admitted that it was he, not the general, who felt that King could not be protected. As it turned out, General Graham was capable of protecting King and everyone else. He kept...
...with the best of credentials. He was born in a poor peasant's hut in the Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions, Polyansky does not stand around stiffly with the other Presidium members making small talk with diplomats; he table-hops around the hall, mingling with rank-and-file party functionaries, slapping backs and trading...