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...able ex-Navy admiral Prueher, do the haggling. It probably quieted the Pentagon that all the key talkers were former military men. Rice kept discipline and information flowing up and down the line. But the President also heeded the advice of experienced elders. Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Bush Sr. all weighed in. Even these heavyweights, however, danced lightly around the new President. Does anyone mind if I call the Chinese, Kissinger demurely asked an aide. Nope, came the answer, phone away...
...aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. Dad's diplomatic alter ego, Brent Scowcroft, was in regular communication with Rice, his former protégé. Scowcroft worked quietly behind the scenes to tone down the initial response. Bush Sr., who spent part of last week in Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always thought of himself as an old China hand. As president, Bush often told his aides, "I know the Chinese" - and then rang up Beijing...
...closest aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. Dad's diplomatic alter ego, Brent Scowcroft, was in regular communication with Rice, his former protEgE. Scowcroft worked quietly behind the scenes to tone down the initial response. Bush Sr., who spent part of last week in Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always thought of himself as an old China hand. As President, Bush often told his aides, "I know the Chinese"?and then rang up Beijing for a friendly...
...aroma led passersby to clamor for the doughnuts, a demand met by cutting a window through a wall to handle retail. An ugly conglomerate, Beatrice Foods, bought Krispy Kreme in 1976 only to spin it off to franchisees in a 1982 leveraged buyout. Today the family of Joseph McAleer Sr., who led the LBO, holds roughly 25% of the shares...
Many who were at the kick-off are heavily involved in city afterschool programming, such as the Rev. Gregory Groover, Sr., who chairs the education committee of the Black Ministerial Alliance, a group whose 40 afterschool programs will likely benefit from the new funds...