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...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...
Looking back on his career, he points to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as two men who deserve the most respect. "Roosevelt led us out of the depression and saved the country and Winston Churchill stood alone with a tiny Island behind him," he says. "I have great admiration for President Truman, but I'll skip over him because people assume I'm biased," he adds, in a reference to his father-in-law. Daniel is almost as well known as the husband of Margaret Truman as he is for his journalistic exploits...
Daniel has equally humorous stories to tell about Winston Churchill, British lords and ladies, Khrushchev, Castro, the CIA, and even some movie stars. The last few pages are devoted to Margaret Truman, for whom Daniel appears to have great respect. Daniel even manages to take a shot at Harvard in the midst; on Aga Khan IV '59--who is revered as a god by his subjects--he writes: "You might say he is the only divinity with a degree from Harvard, at though some other Harvard graduates have intimations of immortality...
...more than 1,700 participants from 45 nations paraded past, many in wheelchairs, others on crutches. Among them were delegations from Poland, Hungary and East Germany, all countries that are boycotting the Summer Games. Reagan passed a flaming Olympic torch to Swimmer Jan Wilson, 28, an amputee from Winston-Salem, N.C., and said, "You are proving that a disability doesn't have to stand in the way of a full and active life...
Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in England and Clemenceau and Poincaré in France had been regular contributors and Mussolini soon became one. Our New York office suggested getting, since we could not have Hitler, who had turned us down, the number-two Nazi. This had led me to call Göring...