Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DWIM: do what I mean. A guess at what was intended by an inferior instruction. Also DTRT, do the right thing...
Since the Soviet offer was put forward in the vaguest terms, American arms experts could only speculate about what it all meant in terms of warheads and missile launchers. Their most educated guess was that Moscow would start by dismantling all of its SS-4 and SS-5 missile launchers, which were already slated for removal because they are now out of date. Precisely what the Soviets intend to do with their sophisticated new SS-20s was another question. One possibility is that they might offer to remove as many as 100 SS-20s from Europe. Counting three warheads...
...Well, I don't say that there aren't problems that worry me, that don't have to be solved. But I don't know, I guess I learned something when I was Governor of California for those eight years. I made a decision then, and I have repeated it now, as kind of a campaign promise to myself, that I didn't want to hear any counsel on any issue as to what might be the political ramifications of it, or how it might affect future elections or anything. And I made a promise...
...Resume Just to read the resumes of the modern Presidents, you would have had a hard time predicting their effectiveness in office. The only fairly safe guess would be that one term as Governor of Georgia is not ideal preparation...
...This is a retroactive guess; in 1976, some 40 million voters, including the writer, didn't think the point mattered that much...