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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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“In the terms that mattered to Johnson—which senators got things done in the Senate—Kennedy didn’t measure up,” Kennedy’s aide Ted Sorensen was to say. “So Johnson underestimated him; he, who had done everything, felt that he didn’t have to take him seriously.” When, in January, 1957, another vacancy opened on Foreign Relations, Joe Kennedy importu
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He was taken ashore on a stretcher and died in London three weeks later.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Sir Henry Garraway,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
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Sir Morris Abbot,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
John’s dad would sometimes say, “If you don’t open your mouth, then no one will know you’re stupid.” John and I had learned on our own that, similarly, if you don’t get caught, then no one will know you’re a troublemaker.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
However, Smith offered some fascinating hopes for the future. He pointed out that consumption didn’t invariably have to involve the trading of frivolous things. He had seen the expansion of the Edinburgh book trade and knew how large a market higher education might become. He understood how much wealth was being accumulated through the construction
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