Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RCA, which reported an 83% drop in profits and slashed its dividend in half this month, suggested that Agee keep his hands to himself. In a press release, RCA harrumphed that the Bendix chairman "has not demonstrated the ability to manage his own affairs, let alone someone else's...
Was it a ruse to lull us while the Kremlin prepared a geopolitical offensive? Or were the Soviets sobered by Nixon's firmness into settling for restraint? Did they seek detente only as a tactical maneuver? Or was there a serious possibility for a long period of stability in...
Any American President soon learns that he has a narrow margin for maneuver. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are ideological rivals. Détente cannot change that. The nuclear age compels us to coexist. Rhetorical crusades cannot change that either. A President thus has a dual responsibility: he must...
With every passing day Watergate was circumscribing our freedom of action. We were losing the ability to make credible commitments, for we could no longer guarantee congressional approval. At the same time, we had to be careful to avoid confrontations for fear of being unable to sustain them in the...
At 6:40 a.m. I called Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin at his embassy in Washington. Roused from bed, Dobrynin claimed the whole episode must be an Israeli maneuver to justify a pre-emptive attack. I told him that my point in calling him was to guarantee precisely the opposite. Pedantically...