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...Vernon Brabham...
...contemporaries felt the same awe and wonder. In Washington's last years, Mount Vernon became a mecca for the great and the grateful, for the curious and the ambitious. So many people arrived at the doorstep that Washington, who would turn none away, finally engaged a social secretary to handle the flow. Sometimes he did not attend the dinners he gave because the company was so numerous and foreign to him. One night when he dined alone with Mrs. Washington, the event was so unusual he made a note of it in his diary...
...Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan, which calls for the Israeli-occupied West Bank to be linked to Jordan, fear that the proposal could be "misinterpreted" to allow for an independent Palestinian state one day. After a speech before the National Press Club and a tour of Mount Vernon with his wife Ofira, Navon flew on to New York City and Boston for talks with American Jewish groups and others...
David C. Berliner, Assistant Director Consumers Union Mount Vernon...
...bishops. The topic doubtless came up when Clark and President Reagan lunched with the Pope's top aide, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, in Hartford on Aug. 3. On Sept. 13, Weinberger sent Bernardin a carefully worded statement making the same points that Clark made later. In October, retired General Vernon Walters, a State Department troubleshooter, quietly visited Rome to brief Pope John Paul on the Administration's position on nuclear strategy, among other matters. The White House campaign changed the view of neither the bishops nor the Pope...