Word: white
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...jesters to lighten the burden of loneliness that often accompanies power. U.S. Presidents have generally managed less condescending personal friendships while in office. Both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had the easy company of George Allen, an adept poker player and raconteur. Dave Powers served as a sort of White House entertainer under John Kennedy, accompanying the President to ball games and cracking Boston Irish gags to relax...
Rebozo assiduously avoids any contact with the press that might suggest self-promotion at Nixon's expense, always refuses to discuss politics. A reporter recently suggested a White House appointment and Rebozo snorted: "We've never even discussed it, and I don't expect to." His friendship with Nixon goes back to 1951, when Florida's Senator George Smathers asked Rebozo to entertain Nixon, a fellow freshman, at Key Biscayne. Rebozo took him fishing and remembers, "We just hit it off." The friendship developed, as did Nixon's habit of flying to Florida...
WITH its plain white cover and official seal, the pamphlet from the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations looked as dull and uninviting as any other Government document. Even the Government Printing Office has its sleepers, however, and Of Specialists and Generalists quickly became the hottest item in Washington. A 71-page compilation of commentary from ancient and modern thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question...
When Irving Williams discusses Washington as a "transition environment," he is not talking politics. "The hot, muggy nights bring on fungus and disease," says Williams; yet the winters are neither cold nor wet enough for northern grass. As head gardener of the White House, Williams solves the problem by planting K31 fescue on the South Lawn and a mixture of bluegrass and fescue on the North Lawn, which faces Pennsylvania...
...Executive Mansion, hundreds of specialists remain, no matter what the Administration. For years Williams and his six-man detail have sown the turf, sprayed the elms and broadcast electronic squawks through a loudspeaker system to keep off the starlings and sparrows. The gardeners and more than 300 other permanent White House staff members-from Steve Martini, the executive barber since 1952, to White House Upholsterer Larry Arata-are likely to be staying on after...