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...they (with a few exceptions), nevertheless refuse to obsess themselves with politics. Several of them differ in race, nationality, class, and sexual preference, yet they express little prejudice. When the British prisoner enters their happy abide, the whorehouse tenants-to the outrage of the I.R.A. captors treat him with warmth and sympathy, their simple compassion out-weighs the national and religious biases that perpetuate...
...Halliday, "the warmth exuded on the trip back from Virginia matched the crying elation after our victory in the Easterns." The next day his biggest concern was that players other than those on the first team felt they too were an integral part of the club...
...tenor of the times," she says of that period. "But during the past campaign, and certainly since the election, the only thing we felt was such warmth and affection that [fear of attack] wasn't up front Her restraint begins to dissolve as she goes over the events of Bloody Monday. She was on the third floor of the mansion, in guest quarters that are still being renovated, when a Secret Service agent told her: "There has been a shooting. The President has not been hit, but he is at the hospital." She decided to leave immediately, even though...
...forehead just over his left eye and crossed through to the right side of his brain. Word quickly spread that he had died, causing gasps and sobs in the White House West Wing among aides and members of the seasoned press corps, for whom Brady, through his wit and warmth, had become more of a joyous friend than a mere professional colleague. For five hours, surgeons working with the aid of a microscope performed a delicate craniotomy, lifting off the top of his skull to remove a significant portion of his right frontal brain lobe, which, among other functions, controls...
...recalls that F.D.R.'s curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, used to send in his resignation periodically. Ickes never expected it to be accepted, and Roosevelt understood that the threat was a kind of body language of power. He would bring Ickes to the White House for warmth and flattery, and thus renewed, Ickes would go back to his tasks, one of which was being Roosevelt's lightning rod. Resignation would be forgotten until next time. After Roosevelt's death, the Secretary delivered his umpteenth offer of resignation. Harry Truman did not talk the same language...