Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes Walter, Harris had collected "several thousand dollars worth" of suits, jewelry (he went for diamond and sapphire rings), an expensive Daimler automobile, credit cards, exotic birds, camera equipment. The Buck name drew well, and by 1965 the board of governors included Art Buchwald, Sargent Shriver and Mrs. William Scranton. The foundation prospered...
...than a few signs that the Administration simply has not been able to find men of the right caliber to fill such important posts. Tokyo was a case in point. After being turned down by at least four men, including John D. Rockefeller III and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Nixon selected a little-known career officer, Armin Meyer, who is experienced in Mideast affairs but a newcomer to the Far East. Unlike his two predecessors, who were influential with John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Meyer is not, and this at a time of increased strain between the two nations...
...came out of World War II a major with silver and bronze stars won in the Battle of the Bulge. A Republican, he has influential friends in both parties. Negotiator Cyrus Vance was his roommate at Yale Law School, and he is extremely close to Nixon Adviser William Scranton. While he displays the McNamara traits of super-efficiency and clipped speech, Resor is known as an artful pacifier of both generals and politicians...
With the new Administration, the U.S. will have an opportunity for new diplomatic beginnings. Ever since Nixon's special envoy, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, toured the Middle East last month and called for a "more evenhanded" policy, the Arabs have been encouraged, rightly or wrongly, to hope for new understanding from the U.S. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser wired Christmas greetings to Nixon, a gesture that he never accorded President Johnson, and there is widespread expectation that diplomatic relations with the U.S., broken off by Nasser during the Six-Day War, will be restored shortly after Inauguration...
Precisely how all of this will be attempted is still unclear. During the campaign, for instance, Nixon declared that the U.S. must help Israel maintain clear military superiority over the Arabs. Last week, however, William Scranton, Nixon's roving fact finder, said while in the Middle East that the U.S. should adopt a more "evenhanded" approach. He repeated the phrase after reporting to Nixon in New York. Scranton's implication was clear: the U.S. had been unfair to the Arab states. Nixon himself has not indicated any modification in U.S. policy, and Israel's Moshe Dayan said...