Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American people is a hatred and a detestation of everything that the Ayatullah Khomeini stands for. I feel that way myself. So in making any contact with Iran, there has been -- and perhaps for a long time to come will be -- a risk that the American people wouldn't understand. You have to know the President to know how strongly he feels about the release of hostages. The problem on all this, of course, is the perception that arms were traded for hostages. The President is absolutely, totally convinced in his mind that that isn't what happened. I know...
...This game is going to come back to help us," Roby continued. "We did everything to win the game tonight, we forced them to play our style. I just hope the guys can understand that we can play with anybody...
...Reagan White House can be fairly faulted for not taking these considerations into account before letting loose the NSC. Nevertheless, Congress ought to content itself with informal understandings as to limits upon the NSC's proper role. Public, media and congressional pressures together with the Tower Panel's scrutiny make it all but certain the NSC staff will have no alternative but to revert to its more traditional limited function. Hiring individuals for the staff who understand and accept this is obviously central. Legislating formal, explicit constraints should be avoided. Just as hard cases tend to make...
...about the need to confront the problem within the community. In cities around the country, programs run by such groups as the Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. and by neighborhood activists are seeking to promote job training, education and stable families. "We have to get these young males to understand the responsibilities that go along with fathering a child," says Mary Frances Berry, a veteran civil rights leader. "We have to make that the issue to highlight in the black community...
Paine: It's important that people understand that Lee was a very ordinary person, that people can kill a President without that being something that shows on them in advance...