Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title given to the assistants of Presidential Aide H. R. Haldeman-scurry around with the Nixon orders and the memos signed RN. Working in the oval office, the Lincoln Room, or a new hideaway in the Executive Office Building, Nixon keeps ceremony to a bare minimum and makes sure that there are few official appointments to disrupt his organized days. After six months in office, say those closest to him, he is calm and confident-and pleased with the record of his fledgling Administration...
...votes on the surtax and the anti-ballistic-missile system. There was much talk last week that he was moving to the right. Most of it was premature. When one of the President's top aides was asked whether the Administration was swinging to the right, he replied: "Sure-every other time." Only a few months ago, the liberals seemed to be in the ascendant. "It's the way you sail a boat when the wind's against you," says another White House staffer. "You tack. You average the headings...
...attitude toward the whites. "However you may feel about our white brothers," he said, "we got to understand one thing: he just doesn't know any better. We're not going to do you like you done us, white folks. We just gonna make damn sure you don't do us no more...
...brothel. In just a few seconds, she similarly includes the audience in her barrage of insults and confidences. Her bitter ballad near the end of the second act, where she is backed by the male members of the cast, is simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant, and I'm sure that if I were more of an Irishman it would have brought me pretty close to tears...
...When this cast joins in a grand chorus line, all dancing--after just a few hesitations--pretty competently, I could really appreciate the achievement. The cast does less well with their brogues. None could hang onto them for any length of time. It was one place, where I'm sure me granmuther could have taught them a thing...