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...inclination would be to use people from both parties, but I hate to commit myself to a token Republican. What I'll do is assess each case on the basis of merit, and I would guess, strictly on the basis of merit, that one of twelve would likely be a Republican...
...late 1974, four-and-a-half months after Time, Inc. offered her a seat on its board of directors, President Horner accepted, convinced that her selection as the first woman director was not a token appointment...
Horner, who did not enter the job until late in 1975, said yesterday "at no time in the board room have I felt at all token--people have asked if I would talk about what is happening with women, but I am not there just to talk about women's issues...
...additional aid of maps and newspapers, we managed a make-shift dialogue. We may not have interpreted every word in the same way, but I'm pretty sure we set a few facts straight. First off, I was American, and I didn't think Kissinger was "beautiful." In token of the pleasure this information gave them, they lit me a cigarrette--one in an alarming flow, since they insisted on taking my nauseated refusal for shyness. When I used the Serbian version of thank you, they revised my meager vocabulary to fit their own dialect. Two of them were professors...
...blackball for some prospect. Ford's floor manager in Kansas City, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, promoted Colleague Howard Baker (who, perhaps coincidentally, may be Griffin's chief competition for the Senate minority leader's job next January). The First Family had its preferences too. Betty Ford urged more than token consideration for Anne Armstrong; Son Jack liked a mayor, Pete Wilson of San Diego, and two Governors, Christopher ("Kit") Bond of Missouri and Dan Evans of Washington. Henry Kissinger promoted a lame-duck incumbent, his former mentor Nelson Rockefeller. Of the Cabinet members, only Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz recommended...