Before heading to Washington, it would be worth reading your predecessors’ conversations with American presidents.
They are similar, with the Brazilian presenting some type of claim.
The outlier was the meeting between General Emílio Médici and Richard Nixon. Medici only made an insinuation, including a request, the promotion of Colonel Arthur Moura to general.
A descendant of Azoreans, Colonel Moura spoke impeccable Portuguese and moved with rare ease, from the basement to the High Command.
Nixon complied with the request, in clear terms: “This is an order and I don’t want to hear bureaucrats talk.”
Moura became a general and stayed in Brazil until 1975. Later, he worked at the construction company Mendes Júnior.
A diplomat who served at the embassy at that time said: “The real political advisor of the embassy was General Moura. I participated in meetings that he practically presided over.”
Moura was a protégé of General Vernon Walters whom he met as a lieutenant. In 1971, Walters was the interpreter for Médici’s conversation with Nixon and days later he wrote to his friend: “Arthur, your star is assured.”
The bird in the Post
In 2013, when he bought the diary, his entry into the business was hailed as redemption.
It took three years for the spell to break.
The . Its newsroom, which has around 800 journalists, will send 300 away.
The Post was in the hands of a banker, whose son-in-law was considered a genius, until he began to behave erratically and put a bullet in his head.
The Post went to heiress Katharine Graham (1917-2001), a simple rich widow.
It was with her that the Post lived its glory days, with the Watergate scandal. Kay Graham was all of these and also the most sought-after figure in social life at the Washington serpentarium.
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