Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Senior White House Assistant Hamilton Jordan: "When you work for Jimmy Carter, you don't have much time for reflection. You just plunge from one big thing to the next. Carter enjoys it. He takes a kind of perverse pleasure in all this activity...
...think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want to?" One man just says, "Viet Nam," ending that), and crime in the county (a man has been shot in a break-in attempt -"Funny thing, he's a married nigger"). None of them pays the least notice to me or the other two strangers eating within earshot. It's their place; we're invisible. While I sense that the N.A.A.C.P. may not wish to pass out brotherhood plaques here, I also smell...
...meetings, so besieged were they by calls from would-be banqueters. "People will kill for a ticket to the state dinner," declared one amused businessman. Sighed a senior White House official: "If we invited everyone who claims an undeniable right to come, we'd have to hold the damn thing in the Capital Center"?a reference to Washington's 19,000-seat sports arena...
...opposing your signing this agreement or three or four more agreements. We're just being sober. One should not rely on such a thing. In seeking world peace and world stability, such agreements are neither as significant nor as useful as the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. and the peace and cooperation treaty signed between China and Japan. And if you look at the question in broader perspective, such an agreement is not as important as the strengthening of relations between the U.S. and Europe and between the U.S. and Japan. The first characteristic of the Soviet...
...question is: After setting up this relationship between China, Japan and the U.S., we must further develop the relationship in a deepening way. If we really want to be able to place curbs on the polar bear, the only realistic thing for us is to unite. If we only depend on the strength of the U.S., it is not enough. If we only depend on the strength of Europe, it is not enough. We are an insignificant, poor country, but if we unite, well, it will then carry weight...