Hints and tips:
...David W GreenLondon NW3, UK...
...Billionaire donors such as Ken Griffin and Harold Hamm showered cash on anti-Trump candidates. But there was no strategy or co-ordination of their efforts....
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
...But in Midland, the west Texas frontier town where George W Bush spent his childhood, they have made Biden an unpopular man....
...Among established Republican donors, Trump expects to depend upon Oklahoma oil tycoon Harold Hamm and casino magnate Miriam Adelson, who stayed neutral in the primary....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
...It made Harold Hamm, who bet the farm that he could blast oil from the Bakken’s brittle shales, America’s most famous oilman — and a billionaire. An oil price crash in 2014 hurt the sector....
...Starr pulled out all stops to dissuade George W Bush’s Department of Justice from filing sex trafficking charges against America’s most notorious underage abuser....
...For a certain kind of establishment Republican, David McCormick has the perfect CV: a West Point graduate and former Army ranger with a PhD from Princeton, several years in the George W Bush administration...
...In 2003, George W Bush brushed aside France and Germany’s objections to his Iraq invasion plans....
...Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World Warby Howard W French, Liveright £25/$35 A recasting of the history of the modern world that places Africa...
...Serving during the war with General Eisenhower in Algiers, Harold Macmillan coined the conceit that Britain could act as Greece to America’s Rome....
...Her encounter was with Professor Harold Livermore, who’d bought the house in 1947 and had been living there ever since....
...Harold Macmillan, having replaced Eden as British prime minister after Suez, took a more hard-headed view....
...Harold van Waveren, of the ministry of infrastructure and water management, says: “The Netherlands is the best-protected delta in the world....
...The English patrician Harold Macmillan struck up an unlikely rapport with John F Kennedy, an Irish-American Catholic....
...It took an emergency summit between prime minister Harold Macmillan and president John Kennedy for the US to substitute the much more appropriate Polaris missile....
...Margaret Beckett 2006-2007 Labour Margaret Beckett is the last surviving member of Harold Wilson’s government in the House of Commons....
...Yes, but ramshackle the way Lewis Carroll or Laurence Sterne or W.G. Sebald is. The ramshackleness of genius....
...John O’Byrne Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Ireland...
...Mr Carter used his monthly editor’s letter to criticise President George W Bush and highlight the human cost of his administration’s military adventures....
...But usually, as W.H. Auden put it, we tend not to “ask what doubtful act allows/ Our freedom in this English house,/ Our picnics in the sun”....
...When presidents do have world views they tend to get bogged down in the messy reality of the world as it is: in “events, dear boy, events”, as Harold Macmillan is supposed to have put it....
...Before the November 2016 Opec meeting, Continental Resources’ chief executive and Trump adviser, Harold Hamm expressed hope that Opec would cut supply and keep prices in a band....
...He is in a different category of dishonesty from the villains of yesteryear, such as Dick Cheney, George W Bush’s vice-president....
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