Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday, Oct. 5, Agnew gave the word to reopen the negotiations to Judah Best, his Washington lawyer. Best immediately got in touch again with Fred Buzhardt, who was in Key Biscayne. Both men are fond of direct action and short, pungent phrases, and they understood each other completely. Buzhardt was definitely interested in talking. That night Best grabbed a plane to Florida and the two men met in a Miami motel in the predawn hours. Their approach was simple: let's get off dead center-the country requires that something be done. After their talk, Buzhardt called the Justice...
CRIMSON-SUN--At 9 a.m. today on Cornell's North Campus field, the Crimson road-tripping touch football team will brave the cold of Ithaca to subdue the Cornell Daily Sun. Twenty-one point margin likely. Crimson 23, Sun 2, Quarterback Robin Freedberg will excel...
Private Détente. Agnew and Reston were also in touch two months ago. At that time, the columnist played a small but significant role in formulating Agnew's response to the charges swirling around him. On the night of Aug. 6, Reston advised Agnew that his initial short statement claiming innocence of any wrongdoing would not be enough, that the Vice President's supporters would expect him to stand up and fight...
...began his attacks on the press a year later, Reston recalls, "I went to see him and I said, I've never had a feud with anybody in Washington in 30 years. I don't believe in feuds. I think it is our responsibility to stay in touch with people who have authority in the Government...
...Secretary J. Marsh Thompson calls "heart-to-heart talks." Reston, unable to secure a private interview with Richard Nixon since the Oregon primary in 1968, has used his private détente with Agnew to stay abreast of Administration thinking. (Henry Kissinger and Melvin Laird have also "kept in touch," Reston says.) Agnew, in turn, has benefited from rather gentle treatment in Reston's influential column. Last February, for instance, Reston quoted approvingly a remark Agnew made in a speech before the Minnesota Press Association: "The fact is that the Nixon Administration is no more desirous of, nor more...