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...Middle East than Camp David, a 143-acre aerie perched atop a 1,880-ft. hill in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, 75 miles northwest of the capital. Franklin Roosevelt was so fond of sneaking off to his hideaway that he called it Shangri-La. There he and Winston Churchill planned Dday. Dwight Eisenhower changed the name of the retreat to that of his grandson David, and the new name later became synonymous with a thawing of the cold war. "The spirit of Camp David" derived from the 1959 summit conference between Eisenhower and the Soviets' Nikita Khrushchev...
MacArthur's strategies helped to win three wars, but foreigners often appreciated him more than his own countrymen. Winston Churchill spoke of him as "the glorious commander." To the Japanese, whom he outwitted at nearly every turn, he seemed endowed with almost superhuman powers. Yet Franklin Roosevelt privately labeled him one of the two most dangerous men in America (the other was Huey Long), and Harry Truman called him "a counterfeit...
...sultanate's Defense Minister. The British High Commissioner handles foreign affairs and is chauffeured about the capital of Bandar Seri Begawan in a huge silver Daimler, given to him by the sultan. One of the few points of interest in the sleepy capital is a museum honoring Winston Churchill. Another landmark is the Royal Brunei Yacht Club, perched beside the Brunei River; with its whirring ceiling fans and overcooked brussels sprouts, the club could easily serve as the setting for a Somerset Maugham short story. Unlike Churchill, Maugham once visited Bandar Seri Begawan and stayed at the club, spending...
...freedom as our best hope for an honorable peace. We should have learned by now that peace at any price means abject surrender to brutal aggression. In essence Solzhenitsyn's view is no different from President John Kennedy's early declaration about freedom or from that of Winston Churchill...
Bill Miller has a noxious problem. The Federal Reserve chairman is a non-smoker in a crowd of the heaviest puffers north of Winston-Salem. Treasury Secretary Mike Blumenthal is constantly chewing on Jamaican cigars. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon is inseparable from his pipe. Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze chain-smokes cigarettes. When near them, Miller sits in tolerant agony. But at the nation's central bank, Miller is very much in charge. Around the Federal Reserve's board room, which long was redolent with the fumes from Arthur Burns' briar, new black signs...