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...could mean in terms of the war that you have now been fighting for 27 years. By all accounts, you have a tough decision to make. Should you reach for a ceasefire at this time on the assumption that Richard Nixon will win his second term in November and thereupon prove much less eager to talk? Or should you just do nothing and gamble that a McGovern Administration will simply abandon the field...
...last week Burns had persuaded both President Nixon and Treasury Secretary George Shultz. The Federal Reserve thereupon bought back an undisclosed amount of dollars on the open money market, purchasing them with German marks taken from the slender American currency reserves. Beyond that, the Federal Reserve made known that it will revive currency "swaps" with other countries. Swaps, which had been common before last August, allow the U.S. to borrow foreign currencies and use them to buy back dollars...
...date would conflict with the funeral of former Justice James Byrnes, which he felt a duty to attend, the conference was switched back to the original date. No one told Marshall about the change; the conference was held, and cases were debated and decided without him. Marshall thereupon sent an angry memo of protest to the Justices, and he told friends, according to the report, "Apparently the funeral of a white man is more important than the funeral of a black man." Embarrassed, the Justices held the conference over again with Marshall present...
...himself king of Jerusalem," she said scornfully, "and envisions himself as ruler of larger territories than were under his control prior to the rout of June 1967." Nonetheless she conceded that "the truth of the matter is that this plan affects Israel's most vital interests." The Knesset thereupon adopted a resolution urging the government to "continue to negotiate" with Jordan-a calculated signal to Amman...
...only I have more sense. If I hadn't talked as much as I did, I would be a billionaire today. A lot of things you say can be true, but they can be said at the wrong time. Now I know when to say certain things." Thereupon the former champion proceeded to say certain things about his financial expectations for a rematch with his successor, Joe Frazier: "Frazier and I must be paid. The slave days are over. We want $6,000,000 each. But I guess we might come down a million...