Word: wealth
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...fair is fair. Reagan may be worth $3 million or $4 million, but Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon were millionaires too. Of the past seven Presidents, ranked by wealth and indulgence, Reagan would be next to the bottom, tied with Carter. Jerry Ford would be low man. At the top of the acquisitive scale would be L.B.J. by several lengths. Estimates of his fortune varied from $3.5 million to $20 million. He collected land, cattle, boots, cars, airstrips, telephones, helicopters and anything else around-with his money or the taxpayers'. It sometimes didn...
...General Assembly's 36th session did not. Delegates were somewhat surprised that Haig chose to address the assembly on the problems of promoting the economic growth of poor nations, rather than on East-West issues. He rejected a Third World proposal for a massive shift of wealth from rich nations to poor nations as "unrealistic" and emphasized private investment as a potential cure for poverty. The solution did not sit well with many of his listeners...
Johnson began receiving large contributions from lobbyists representing the new energy-and-technology wealth of the Southwest while a Congressman, Caro writes, and he built his political power by distributing the money among other Democrats in return for their allegiance. When he became President in 1963, he put his assets into a "blind trust" and publicly relinquished control of them. Caro, however, asserts that Johnson had private telephone lines installed in the Oval Office linking him to attorneys administering the trust, and that he would spend several hours a day directing his business affairs...
...first public address, De la Madrid told a cheering, banner-waving throng that his chief task will be to "choose the correct route that benefits the Mexican people." As Lopez Portillo has discovered, even with the advantages of oil wealth, that is not always easy...
...historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those who try to suppress the Irish; their victims nonetheless eventually rise to wealth through suffering (a theme of Rich Man, Poor Man). Virtue among the good English is measured by willingness to subordinate their lives to the Irish cause. Despite mechanical plotting, the first two hours evoke a world that can still outrage us. In America, however, there is no unknown corner...