Word: winstons
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...fact that the Viet Nam War was on makes a better excuse. As Winston Churchill once remarked, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Nowadays public figures are confronted with the problem of telling the truth or lying in a way that never faced Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. Before congressional committees or television interviewers they face cameras, instant answers are demanded, and the pictorial proof of what is said goes into the files to haunt them. In the Westmoreland trial, McNamara was a reluctant witness; for 13 years previously...
...professional life was lived in a shadow-the years before 1974, when he came to the U.S. Now, thanks to Theater Critic and Photographer Nina Alovert, who left the Soviet Union three years later, the dancer's Soviet career has been recaptured in Baryshnikov in Russia (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 212 pages...
...Winston and Franklin...
Something that Winston Churchill once said of democracy applies to that curious instrument of democracy, the presidential campaign debate: "In this world of sin and woe," it is the worst of all possible systems, except for any alternative that has yet been tried. Sunday night Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale provided occasional valuable indications about how they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed...
...same decade with I you," Franklin Roosevelt cabled his friend Winston Churchill. Fun hardly seemed the right word at the time: the two leaders were sharing some of the darkest moments in history. It was January of 1942. The Japanese, after their attack on Pearl Harbor, were invading the Philippines and advancing southward through British Malaya; the Germans ruled most of Europe. But Jan. 30 was also Roosevelt's 60th birthday, and Churchill remembered to wish him many happy returns, "and may your next birthday see us a long lap forward on our road." That was what prompted Roosevelt...