Word: bested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know yet whether we will succeed. If we do not succeed, we will take appropriate action to change the status quo." What did he mean by appropriate action? Replied Carter: "How to deal with this successfully is not an easy task. But we'll do the best we can." Carter also went out of his way to say that the Soviets were lying about the nature of the troops, an accusation he had made earlier-in private-to Congressmen. Declared the President: "The thing that concerns us is that it is a combat unit. The Soviets deny...
...bureaucratic or congressional escape routes, provided I could figure them out. Only then would I broach substance. But even with such tactics, I lost as often as I won. John Ehrlichman considered mine a cowardly procedure and decided he would teach me how to deal with Laird. Following the best administrative theory of White House predominance, Ehrlichman, without troubling to touch any bureaucratic or congressional bases, transmitted a direct order to Laird to relinquish some Army-owned land in Hawaii for a national park. Laird treated this clumsy procedure the way a matador handles the lunges of a bull...
Like many self-made Texans he preferred the frontal assault to the indirect maneuver. He was convinced that the best way to transcend the malaise of Viet Nam was for our leaders to be visibly engaged in a tough defense of the American interest. He demonstrated immediately that the notorious Nixon "Palace Guard," which forced Cabinet members to deal with the President through White House assistants, could not survive the challenge of a determined Cabinet member. He simply ran over them on international economic policy. If he needed White House guidance, he simply crossed the street from the Treasury...
...Pirates won their first National League pennant since 1971 with a resounding 7-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh yesterday. The win gave them a three-game sweep over the Reds in the best of five Championship Series...
Tsongas restated his call for the divestiture of investments in corporations active in South Africa, which he said will best promote the interests of non-whites...