Word: ambassadorship
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...motion, sweeping in to lift up spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand. She was greatly relieved." When Billy arrived for a crusade in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1989, Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Presidents always know the perfect thing to give a pal -- an ambassadorship. Secretary of State Warren Christopher recently sent Bill Clinton a list of four career diplomats whom he was recommending to become ambassadors. The President scribbled a no next to each name on the list and wrote at the top, "Where are all our friends?" One candidate has since been promised an embassy, one is leaving government, two are still waiting...
...against that backdrop that Strauss must conduct his unconventional ambassadorship, while dealing with a U.S. Administration and a Congress that act, these days, as if foreign policy were a social disease, each blaming the other for the failure to provide major economic assistance and advice to Russia. Over a candlelit dinner last month at Spaso House, the ambassadorial residence in Moscow, Strauss and his wife Helen listened as two Senators -- Republican Robert C. Smith of New Hampshire and Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts -- agreed that the way to bring American audiences "out of their chairs" these days was simply...
...call from the Bush Administration last summer was tantalizing. Would you be interested, Federal Judge Ricardo Hinojosa was asked, in a promotion to the federal appeals bench? Hinojosa declined but allowed that he would accept an ambassadorship instead. Dumbfounded, his caller noted that the President might have more in mind for his old Texas friend. Hinojosa didn't take the hint. Thus when Thurgood Marshall retired, Bush apparently didn't feel he could name the Brownsville judge as the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. "If I were him," says a senior White House official, "I'd be kicking myself...
...Nixon offered me any job I wanted. I said, "Dick, I do not want any job. God called me to preach." Johnson offered me the ambassadorship to Israel. Later on, sitting beside Golda Meir at a dinner at the White House, I said, "I am not the man. God called me to preach." And Golda Meir reached and grabbed my hand. She was so thrilled. I told Johnson, "The Middle East would blow up if I went over there...