Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dwight Eisenhower spoke from Detroit, Nelson Rockefeller from Los Angeles, George Romney from Washington, William Scranton from Indianapolis, Barry Goldwater from Pittsburgh, and Richard Nixon from New York City. Each spoke briefly-with varying success-but Nixon gave the most polished performance...
Full Stocking. France's monumental diplomatist of the 19th century was Talleyrand, who, said Mirabeau, would sell his soul for money, "and he would be right, for he would be exchanging dung for gold." Where Richelieu spoke for a powerful and united France, Talleyrand's 19th century role was most often like De Gaulle's: to make the world pay heed to a beaten, broken France. Superbly confident, cool under the worst conditions, Talleyrand once sat calmly through an hour-long tirade by Napoleon Bonaparte and heard himself called everything from a liar and a traitor...
China was saved for the last. China was very big, very old, very abused, said De Gaulle. He spoke warmly of Generalissimo
...them (not being able to travel to the West, not being able to get Western newspapers and magazines), these students were still very idealistic. They felt an excitement at simply being alive at that particular place and time which I have hardly ever seen in American students. They spoke as if they were entering a new profession. "In our country we have industry now, so the time has come to concentrate on other things: improving cultural life and political organization, developing a critical sense among the people...
...leave-all in eight minutes. At 34, Forrestal married a New York socialite and Vogue editor, Josephine Ogden, whose friends were all café society. They had two sons, but before long the couple were leading separate lives. Forrestal, who avoided emotional attachments all his life, hardly even spoke to his boys until they were ready to enter college...