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...start, the man in the Oval Office can get trapped by tradition if he allows himself to, and most do. He looks over his shoulder at his predecessor and tries to do him one better. Jerry Ford got up at 5:30 a.m. to exercise his football knees. Next thing we knew Jimmy Carter was out of bed at the same unholy hour, professing he was exercising his mind in predawn solitude. That routine had limited success for both...
Prayer breakfasts and other public moments of celestial meditation are not bad in themselves, it is just that they seem to grow more numerous, louder and longer with every Administration. It is as if each new President must try to establish a better relationship with God than his predecessor did. An old and wry hand in Washington, who has served five Presidents, claims that there is a direct relationship between how much a President prays in public and how devious he is backstage...
...early supporter of Khrushchev's, Kosygin continued his rise in the Soviet hierarchy as a Deputy Premier after Khrushchev was made party chief in 1953. Following the Kremlin conspiracy to oust Khrushchev in 1964, Kosygin and Brezhnev divided up the two posts that their predecessor had held simultaneously. Brezhnev took over the much more powerful job of Party Secretary, while Kosygin became Premier, which put him in control of the day-to-day management of the Soviet government. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger viewed Kosygin as a pragmatist, with "a glacial exterior" who was "orthodox if not rigid...
...nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role, Margaret Rutherford-solves the case, almost by remote control...
...Committee of Fifteen was a predecessor of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities convened after the April, 1969, student occupation of University Hall for the specific purpose of disciplining students who participated in that protest...