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...friends were taciturn, self-made men who shunned the spotlight. These were principally those two rich entrepreneurs, Bebe Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp. "I'm an introvert in an extravert profession," Nixon said-a formula that itself may have been a stratagem of concealment. When confronted with a crisis, he became more secretive than ever, withdrawing into seclusion and arriving at a decision with relatively little outside advice. Sternly self-controlled ("I have a fetish about disciplining myself"), he was stiff in public and rarely relaxed in private. As Author Garry Wills maintained in Nixon Agonistes, Nixon erected this "wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIXON YEARS: DOWN FROM THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINTOP | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

They made an odd couple-the voluble politician from the streets of Newark and the taciturn Princeton man who worked on civil rights in the Justice Department under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. But the two men worked closely with growing mutual respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Man with the Judicious Gavel | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...then engineered the massive daylight bombardment of crucial German industrial targets. He later carried out the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after his opposition to the atomic bombing of cities had been overruled. When the Air Force became the military's third full branch in 1947, the erect, taciturn general was named its first chief of staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1974 | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Died. Eurico Caspar Dutra, 89, conservative, taciturn President of Brazil from 1946 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Pre-eminently a soldier, Dutra rose through military ranks to become war minister to Strongman Getulio Vargas in 1936, belatedly latched onto the Allied wartime cause after years of vocal admiration for the Nazi forces, and was swept into the presidency following Vargas' ouster in 1945. Among the highlights of his honest, non-dictatorial but uninspired administration were the outlawing of the Communist Party and of casino gambling, at the time Brazil's most lucrative industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...first Protestant ever to rule what is the world's largest Roman Catholic nation. One of the original plotters of the coup, he served four years as head of Petrobras, the state-owned oil monopoly. The new chief of state is almost a carbon copy of the taciturn outgoing President, Emilio Garrastaz Médici, and few changes seem in prospect. In fact, given the self-effacing, collective character of the Brazilian oligarchy, who wears the presidential mantle at any particular time is of little importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: A Decade of Ditadura | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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