Word: ambassador
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Having made his point and rewarded his contributor, Bill Clinton is no longer in a fighting mood. The President blinked Wednesday in his staredown with Sen. James Inhofe over gay ambassador James Hormel, promising to notify the Senate of any appointments he plans to make while they?re out of town. It was a courtesy Clinton had observed until the Hormel decision, when, with Senate leaders holding the nomination hostage to the wishes of their conservative wing, it must have seemed pointless. Backing down now, however, is not so pointless -- not when Richard Holbrooke is finally headed for the Senate...
JAMES C. HORMEL Clinton makes him first openly gay U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Or anywhere...
...Louis, his very existence took on the quality of myth. Overwhelming, overnight celebrity followed him home from Paris to the U.S. and around the nation on his tour promoting aviation. Fame followed him on his goodwill tour to Mexico late in 1927, where he met the U.S. ambassador's daughter Anne Morrow, who married him in 1929. They traveled all over the world as pioneer aviator-explorers, mapping air routes for the fledgling airline industry. Together they navigated by the stars and watched the great surfaces of the earth revealed beneath their wings: desert and forest and jungle and tundra...
...America's first hero of the century. She was the shy, self-conscious daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. Together they were one of America's first celebrity couples in a media-crazy century. With his encouragement, she wrote memoirs of their life that made her one of the country's most popular and famous diarists. Early in the relationship, as Anne wrote ecstatically in 1928, when the couple were "together, alone--all gold, that extra golden bloom over everything!" But, as Lindbergh's biographer A. Scott Berg writes, "their 'storybook romance,' as the press always presented...
...member of the conservative groups Young Americans for Freedom and Students for a Just Peace, Rosen helped plan a pro-war teach-in in March 1971, to which the South Vietnamese ambassador was invited. The teach-in was disrupted when several hundred protesters filled the seats of Sanders Theatre, chanting and holding anti-war banners...