Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been the only Massachusetts paper to support him. "Aren't you a funny magazine?" he asked. "No, we try to be serious," I answered. What did he think of President Eisenhower? "How can he let that bastard Joe McCarthy get away with destroying honest people," he said. "The one thing I can't forgive Ike for was that he didn't stand up for George Marshall when McCarthy attacked him." In retrospect, veritas was virtue as much as it was fact, passion and integrity as much as it was knowledge and beauty...
...presidential hopefuls learn one thing from the elections in Great Britain, let it be that they can win a campaign by saying what they feel, not what they think the public wants to hear...
...public, Carter joked bitterly about his problems. During a broadcast interview with members of the National Cable Television Association, which was meeting in Las Vegas, Carter said, "I am sure some of you are riding a better streak at the casinos than I am in Congress. For one thing, the odds are obviously better where...
...election one moment, hinting at his own ambitions the next, and all the while avoiding a categorical denial that he will run. Even House Speaker Tip O'Neill, an old friend, is not sure whether the Senator will end up declaring, but he is convinced of one thing: "If Kennedy were to run, Carter wouldn't get the nomination...
Sultan Qaboos believes absolute rule is a thing of the past and that a modern king must give his people a voice in their own future. "Firepower, color television, air conditioning can't satisfy people wanting their own parliament," he says. "That's the message of the 20th century. Kings and shahs, sultans and emirs, must all bow to it. And dictators...