Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble redecorated their offices, took home movies, planned political tricks, walled the nation away. One of their number, searching for a new Secretary of Commerce a few months back, looked up in surprise when he was asked if he had found a man knowledgeable in Soviet-U.S. trade, a cornerstone of Nixon's foreign vision. "We never talked about it," he said. "We needed a Southerner...
MATHER HOUSE COMMONS U. Jiff Self-Portraits, April...
Jackson also pressed the White House to reduce the role and stature of the ACDA in the second round of SALT talks, which began last month. Nixon did this by splitting Smith's former job in two. To handle the new talks with the Soviets, the President appointed U. Alexis Johnson, a career diplomat, tough negotiator and former Under Secretary of State. As director of the ACDA, Iklé will concentrate on research and planning arms strategy...
...tung seems to be becoming ever more Confucian. Recent pictures of him receiving visitors in his book-lined study indicate that he spends much of of his time there, and he gave visiting Japanese Premier Tanaka several volumes of Confucianist commentaries on Ch'u poetry (the historical state of Ch'u is Mao's birthplace). China watchers believe that they have seen signs of Mao's beginning to turn inward, to reflect on himself in the light of Confucian philosophy. From a Confucian bit of advice about grain storage, given to the last Emperor...
...point proposal issued by the "Trail of Broken Treaties" calls for the U.S. to honor its treaty commitments and to abolish the BIA, substituting an alternate agency that would revitalize Indian-U.S. relations...