Word: sequoia
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...Morris paints himself as the cool, mature mind who advised on everything from suitable vacation spots to the Bosnian peace talks. And he breathlessly describes how he and Clinton toiled alone on the '95 State of the Union address, he at the typewriter, the President above him, "like a sequoia...
Stephenson, who is currently in own for a 30th anniversary reunion, is a resident of Atherton, California and a partner in the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital...
...worst excesses have vanished. The presidential yacht Sequoia, which Nixon's aides would take down the Potomac but abandon in favor of a helicopter for the trip back, has been sold. But don't look for many bus trips. The President took his victory lap on Air Force One last Wednesday to go to the town meeting in Detroit. It's a $181 million Boeing 747 with an office, computer center, conference room, bedroom, 85 phones, 18 televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal...
...austere, primal, bony architecture, nowhere near as decorated as French or English. Its grandeur is all in the structure, and no building displays this more piercingly than the 14th century church of Santa Maria del Mar, the "workers' church" of Barcelona, with its sublimely plain interior, a solemn Sequoia grove of stone hewed from the quarries of Montjuic, the mountain that guards the port...
Although he talks as if he needs a visa to go inside the Beltway, Perot has dined at the White House, sailed on the presidential yacht Sequoia and lobbied the Oval Office, the Cabinet and Capitol Hill. In 1975, for example, he pulled off a coup most lobbyists only dream about. Late one night as the House Ways and Means Committee tied up the loose ends in that year's tax bill, then Democratic Congressman Phil Landrum of Georgia introduced an amendment that might have been the largest one-time tax break in history, granting Perot an unheard-of capital...