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...Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, he became fascinated with the deer that came to his cabin for a handout. He kept calling for more food to feed them in this rare wilderness excursion. The next morning his eggs came without toast. "You fed all the bread to the deer," the chagrined President was told. One morning Dean Rusk got an angry phone call from Kennedy complaining about a news leak. Find the culprit, barked Kennedy. Rusk went to unusual lengths to trace the leak, finally called in the reporter himself for a grilling. The Secretary of State...
...Banquet Toast. For Kissinger, as for the Chinese, the prime purpose of the latest get-together was to discuss further improvement of relations rather than inaugurate any new policies. In a banquet toast, Kissinger pledged to "speed the progress toward normalization of relations with China." He also assured Chou, in a veiled reference to the possible outcome of Watergate, that "whatever happens in the future and whatever the Administration," the U.S. will remain friendly. Inevitably there was speculation that Kissinger's visit might culminate in resumption of full diplomatic relations. Chou, however, reminded reporters that Peking is opposed...
...spent the past 21 months busily trying to revive and inspire his defeated country, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was remarkably relaxed on his state visit to Washington last week. Proposing a toast at a White House dinner, he noted that his discussions with President Nixon had covered economic, cultural and military affairs. "The cultural and military matters got intertwined," he joked, "perhaps because Dr. Kissinger was there...
...Democrats who so rarely have been invited into such sacred premises were offered scrambled or poached eggs, sausage or bacon or both, English muffins or toast. The elegant White House waiters passed those 800 Flamenco No. 1 cigars. All of that didn't prevent Albert and O'Neill from giving blunt assessments about the prospects for Nixon's legislative proposals, but they went back to Congress having been part of a dialogue, not schoolchildren summoned for another flipchart show by Haldeman and Ehrlichman...
...Reilly was best remembered as the Johnny Unitas of Ireland. The freckled, sandy-haired O'Reilly was the toast of Dublin pubs as an international rugby star who set touchdown records in the 1950s. As recently as 1970 he "slipped apologetically" out of a meeting of the board of H.J. Heinz's United Kingdom subsidiary, which he then headed, for one last fling on the field, joining the Irish national team in a match against England. Last week 37-year-old Tony O'Reilly established a greater claim to fame. He was picked by the parent...