Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanting to jeopardize his bank's relations with any of the contending factions in Iran. So Kissinger turned to Nelson Rockefeller, his old friend and mentor. Just two weeks before Rockefeller died, he helped find a suitable residence: the Palm Springs estate of Walter H. Annenberg, former Ambassador to Britain. The Shah, however, did not seek a U.S. visa; instead, he went to Egypt and then Morocco...
...Nobody else had ever been invited to the Russian army country club. But we got in there, took the place over. And then later the American ambassador snubbed us, wouldn't even get out of his chair to say hello. So what...
Dixie 14: "Someone is banging on the roof. Mr. Ambassador, they are shooting down the air-conditioning vents...
When we finally reached safety, Ambassador Hummel praised us for "having done more for ourselves than I could get the government of Pakistan to do." He was absolutely right. I don't care what President Carter says. I don't care what Secretary Vance says. We came out all by ourselves. It was our Marine guards who saved us. Nobody else...
...candidate's small, chartered airplane taxis to the tiny terminal building in Spencer, Iowa, (pop. 12,000). George Bush, former CIA director, former envoy to Peking, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, former Ambassador to the U.N. and former Congressman from Houston, unfolds himself from his seat and steps down onto the tarmac. No cheering throngs greet him. Unperturbed, he shakes hands with his few supporters. Then Bush climbs into a large black Cadillac owned by Lee Holt, Spencer's premier car dealer. Holt and Bush cruise off into the failing light, down arrow-straight roads, past...