Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the session, Carter left for Camp David with his wife Rosalynn, who has become increasingly involved in the drafting of his speeches. Described by an aide as "feisty and fierce" these days, she feels that the professional speechwriters are not helping Jimmy get across his simple populist message. Acting as an editor, she put some of the finishing touches on Jimmy's Cuban speech...
...Israel, Jordan and Lebanon, where he had met with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. That was phase one of his self-appointed mission to promote U.S. and Israeli acceptance of the P.L.O. Phase two was a meeting in Cairo with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. During the session...
...Desnoes is controversial in the sense that anyone in a Cuban official role is controversial. We don't expect that session to be dull," Dominguez, who is coordinating the convention added...
...events, after the poolside strategy session at Camp David we flew back to the capital, and in the late afternoon Nixon invited John Mitchell to join Bebe Rebozo and me for a cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues...
...this, he writes, as a great opportunity; unless it was grasped, the U.S. mood was such that even with an overwhelming mandate, Nixon would quickly be "pushed against the grindstone of congressional pressures" to end the war on almost any terms. In this situation, an unprecedented four-day secret session was convened on Sunday morning, Oct. 8. The critical meeting was held in a house in suburban Gif-sur-Yvette, once owned by the French artist Fernand Léger and still adorned with his Cubist paintings and tapestries. Around noon, after Kissinger had laid out the essentially unchanged...