Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger kept in touch with James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury, the two other most powerful and visible Cabinet members. Their understanding was that the Cabinet must be calmed, must be kept in touch with reality. A careless speech or comment on fighting it out might falsely mislead Nixon about the inevitability of resignation, might freeze him into a position that would grow even more tragic. In Haig's frantic orchestration were the Republican Congressmen and the Republican Senators, men whose voices would mean something in bringing the light to Nixon...
...Beatles dressed as butchers and surrounded by wooden babies and chopped meat. Quite grotesque--too grotesque for the public taste in 1967. Capitol pasted new covers on the unreleased albums; mint-condition models of the original butchers are like two-dollar bills. Fans scurry up, hands reach out to touch the record, Instamatics and Nikons flash at the cover. A fellow in whitened jeans and a workshirt quietly offers $200--the stipulated minimum bid. There are no other takers; it's his. "I had nothing better to spend it on," says Peter Kunkel, who earned the money working...
Controlled Attack. Whether delivered with the sardonic light touch of Missouri's William Hungate, the biting thrusts of Ohio's John Seiberling or the measured coolness of Maryland's Paul Sarbanes, the attack on Nixon's actions was controlled, yet incisive. When such troubled Republicans as Maine's semi-lyrical Cohen, Maryland's hard-hitting Hogan and the earnest McClory joined the assault, the impact was powerful...
...final touch of humor sneaks through again, almost perversely, at the end. Tunin goes berserk when he finds he's been betrayed, but can only manage a ludicrous escape attempt, first sprawling ignominiously on the cobblestones and then falling flat on his face on a table loaded with cabbages...
...Basically, we should be pretty much done and out of there when the freshmen show up. There might be some touch and go delivery items, but right now it's go. We've monitored the situation daily and don't foresee any real problems, Sartucci said yesterday...