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When she talks about herself nowadays, it is to tell about blowing sky high?not remembering her speech???when she presented an award at the Tony ceremonies a few months ago. Or to describe how, on the set of Stab, "I just couldn't get a scene right. The dialogue seemed false. I got madder and madder because I knew the answer lay within me, but I couldn't wrestle it up. I sulked all day?something I never did before. There's a lot of tension toward the end of a film, because the answers have to be there...
...Bush jokes effectively about her winter-white hair and wrinkle-creased face. She drew a laugh from a women's Republican club last winter by remarking that every so often someone would tell her: "My, your son gave a good speech???only they don't mean my son." She plays the totally supportive wife, constantly reciting her husband's qualifications for high office. In answer to a question, she remarked: "I'm not running for President, so I am not going to tell you my position on abortion. But I would love to tell you what George...
...that later came to be known as the Shanghai Communique. Nixon had seen and approved a draft communique prepared by me and my staff. It followed the conventional style, highlighting fuzzy areas of agreement and obscuring differences with platitudinous generalizations. Quite uncharacteristically, the Premier made a scorching one-hour speech???at the express direction of Mao, he said?declaring that our approach was unacceptable. The communique had to set forth fundamental differences; otherwise the wording would have an "untruthful appearance." Our present draft was the sort of banality the Soviets would sign but neither mean nor observe...
Initial reaction to the State of the Union speech???about the only pronouncement that businessmen had time to digest last week?indicates that Carter made a small start toward soothing business anxiety but has a very long way to go. Said John Wilson, an economist at California's Bank of America, the nation's largest: "I think he demonstrated he has a good grasp of short-term and long-term economic problems, and he presented a balanced package." J. Sidney Webb, executive vice president of TRW Electronics in Los Angeles, thought Carter sounded "more like a conservative Republican than...
...President wrote his soothing, low-keyed speech???which he described as "just a little straight talk among friends . . . the first of many"?beginning late Wednesday night, with the help of his chief of staff, Robert Hartmann, and Speechwriter Milton Friedman. With genuine humility, Ford conceded that "you have not elected me as your President by your ballots," and asked that he be confirmed "with your prayers." He emphasized the need for truth and promised to follow his "instincts of openness and candor." Time and again Ford talked about his "friends," not once mentioning enemies, domestic or foreign. Implicitly...