Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...could open it by telling them that we have to renegotiate SALT II. We could take what is usable out of SALT II, and then tell them that we are not going to ratify the treaty the way it is and then make it plain that we are ready to sit down to legitimate negotiations. I will say this right away...
...think that in negotiations you are going to have to make it plain to the Soviets that there are some disadvantages for them if they do not go along. Maybe the disadvantage would be that you wouldn't negotiate. I think that they have a very great stake in those negotiations...
...made it very plain that he does not want to be a part of the Administration, but he has also made it plain that any time I want to call upon him for missions or something of that kind, he would help...
...secessionism, which the Soviet Union would almost certainly try to exploit. Second, American policymakers believe it would not necessarily be good news for the West or for Saudi Arabia if Iraq's President Saddam Hussein were to emerge a clear winner from the present war. He has made it plain that he wants to become the strongman and protector of the gulf. U.S. officials fear that as a radical and a revolutionary, Saddam Hussein would be an inspiring figure to dissident elements inside Saudi Arabia and the smaller sheikdoms of the area...
Sherman Adams used to be called "the abominable no-man," because part of his job was to say no to the people that Eisenhower either could not or would not see. Bob Haldeman got very much the same reputation in the Nixon White House. But the plain fact is that a President needs an abominable no-man if his time is to be organized effectively so that he can get done the things that he has to get done - and especially il he is to have the uncluttered time in his schedule that he needs in order to think...