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On the first evening after his swearing-in, Shamir summoned his Cabinet for an emergency session on the economy. The meeting did not break up until 6:30 the following morning. The result: a 23% devaluation of the shekel and a sharp cut in food subsidies, meaning an average price...
But the limos and family estates have never made Buckley a stuffy Puritan-style conservative. On the contrary, Buckley defines the Peter Pan syndrome of politics, forever lost in the dodges that spell success in prep school, now substituting serious political essays on supply side economics for explications of Victorian...
Mark Twain's wife once tried to cure her husband of violent swearing by repeating verbatim a long stream of curses he had just let fly. Twain looked at his wife condescendingly: "Honey, you know the words, but you don't know the tune." In a sense, that...
Someone had asked Carter the night before his swearing-in if he were nervous about becoming President. "No," he answered after a moment's reflection. "I'm sorry, but I'm not." He plunged immediately and vigorously into his work. Within a day he had issued his...
¶ "A lady aged 102, when I asked her what life was like at her age, said, 'Nothing but buttoning and unbuttoning.' Not much to look forward to, is it?" 1947: Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You...