Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...path remains open and the pace of peace continues," the president said in a nationally-televised news conference one day after his fifth and final summit with the Soviet leader...
...thing is to borrow from Earl Long and tell the people you lied." Johnston doesn't expect Bush to ape Long, but he does expect him "to set the stage and move by degrees. At some point, possibly under the cover of the National Economic Commission or an economic summit between the White House and Congress, Bush could tank his campaign dribble and say, 'Well, I thought we could do it my way, but it turns out we just...
...strategy summit in Maine, Bush reluctantly decides to accentuate the negative...
Fitzwater said Reagan and Bush would meet, probably together, with Gorbachev, but said the session would not be "a summit in the sense of a summit...
...part, do not taunt and humiliate adversaries when conducting diplomacy or pursuing legislation. In war, yes, but war is a last resort. A President's task is to reconcile, to include. Hence, Richard Nixon, a bareknuckle anti-Commie on the way up, spent as much time at his first summit trying to persuade Leonid Brezhnev that they would both be winners with an arms-limitation agreement as he did espousing the U.S. position. John Kennedy early in his presidency grew heated and called Big Steel men "s.o.b.'s," then quickly cooled down and made amends. "If they...