Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last winter when the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by anti-Shah Iranians and the American Ambassador in Afghanistan was killed by terrorists, Defense Secretary Harold Brown was touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named...
...based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later because he wanted to go back to Houston. There he served as board chairman of an investment banking company, Rotan Mosle Financial Corp. until 1977, when he went to Washington. He works long hours at the office but occasionally escapes with his wife Anne, and sometimes their-two college-age children, to the family ranch in Wyoming...
...factor may be that Jordan has been under a good deal of personal pressure. Soon after he went to Washington, his marriage of eight years began to dissolve. He is now divorced. Last year, his father died...
...question arose whether Carter had yielded authority to Hamilton Jordan, Charles Kirbo and Jody Powell. Or had he harbored for months dark impulses to clean out his Cabinet, even while posing in an aura of human kindness? While the purge was going on, the President went out into the Rose Garden to meet with the Future Farmers of America. "Some things don't change," he said softly. "The fundamentals don't change - love within a family, honesty, friendship among people, the desire for peace, respect for one another, the beauty of nature and genuine patriotism based on confidence...
Still, eight of the twelve members of the House committee went along with the view that there was enough evidence in both the King and Kennedy cases to warrant the Justice Department's continuing the investigation, although nothing was found to overturn the basic conclusion of the Warren Commission 15 years ago: that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report...