Word: stays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private meetings with Carter, Vance finally said he would resign if the rescue mission went through. Carter asked him to stay. Vance said he would continue in office if he could dissent publicly about the mission. Carter reluctantly agreed, and Vance left the Oval Office. But after a few minutes he returned. "Forget I said that," he told the President, and then explained that he felt it would be wrong for him to make public his lack of support for such an important venture...
...temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate.' And he doesn't stay mad very long." Says Florida Democrat Richard Stone, who has been tongue-lashed by Muskie: "I think he uses his temper. It doesn't use him." Muskie tends to agree: "I do blow my stack," he admits, "but tactfully and strategically. A little righteous indignation at the right time...
...found it hard to stay at home minding the store. After years of dealing directly with Kissinger, Vance's foreign counterparts wanted to see the Secretary of State himself, not some surrogate. Vance ended up flying nearly half a million miles on 85 trips, 34 of them abroad. It was mostly physical fatigue, aggravated by a chronic bad back that led him to announce in April 1978 that he would not serve a second term even if Carter were reelected. That characteristically forthright declaration was a tactical blunder of major proportion. It instantly made him a lame duck...
...Indeed not, but the aide and Carter's other political strategists did not much care what excuse he used to leave the Rose Garden. For weeks, they had been telling him that both his standing with the public and his fund raising were suffering from his stay-at-home strategy. Then came the unsuccessful raid in Iran, followed three days later by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's resignation, which amounted to a stinging vote of no confidence that was only partly offset by Carter's choice of Senator Edmund Muskie as Secretary of State. The President...
When Karen Spencer first arrived in Cambridge, she wasn't sure Radcliffe had a crew. She began rowing freshman year to stay in shape for basketball, and hasn't stopped since...