Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deregulation. "Well, I'm against controls too," Carter said. "I'm just in the position of wanting to ease it on the consumer and so the companies don't make exorbitant profits." As DeConcini apologized for taking up Carter's time, the President said, "I understand, Dennis. I know what constituents...
...would say to me that your aunt died yesterday. I would simply say, "Well, I'm sorry." The direct translation into English sounds a little bit callous, but I only meant to say that I was neutral. I feel sorry for any person's death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew who he was, of course, and the record of his organization. But, personally, I didn't know the late Mr. Biko from a bar of soap. I think that [police] judgment...
...putting Bert Lance through the twice-daily gauntlet of shoving reporters, the press might say in its own defense that each newsman was only responding to competitive pressures for a new picture, a new quote. Nothing personal, you understand: we do it to everybody who gets in a jam. But this tumultuous, superficial "reporting," which is about all the public ever sees of reporting, gives all journalism a bad name. And these are matters to keep in mind, even though Lance was right to quit, Carter was wrong in defending him, and it was Lance's own failure...
This leaves only one species for whom Russell can produce a kind word-and we are to understand that homosexuality is the sole source of Valentino's saintly patience and stoic courage. To illustrate this, the director concocts a sequence in which the star challenges one of his macho journalistic tormentors to a boxing match, takes a vicious beating but finally kayoes the nasty man, in the style of a gay Rocky...
...there is no strain between them, say the President's friends. Amateur Freudians believe they detect some snarls in Billy's mind-an almost angry competitiveness, a neglected brother's attention-getting exhibitionism and so on. Whatever the brothers' relations, the White House may instinctively understand that Billy in certain ways is good for Jimmy. One of the most flattering rumors ever circulated about George Washington had it that, in order to warm up his soldiers while crossing the Delaware, he told a dirty joke. Jimmy Carter seems incapable of performing such a humanizing service...