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The confidants
noun
A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
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The confidants here are de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, and their ghosts still seem to commandattention at the Elysée Palace.In Mr Schwartz's hands, LBJ provides an admirable example of the way that a president from Texas restrained himself and his subordinates from attacking Paris politically, despite enormous tension.
"It pained him, but he let it happen," one of the confidants, a high-ranking official in the current government, said.
Mr. Putin's presidential administration — an organ whose influence reaches into every corner of the state — will be dominated by the confidants who have surrounded him for a decade, including fellow veterans of the intelligence and security services.
Mrs. Clinton came to her decision after additional discussion with President-elect Barack Obama about the nature of her role and his plans for foreign policy, said one of the confidants, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the situation.
But by continually introducing himself into his narrative, Gould unwittingly fosters an old (and, in my opinion, incorrect) notion that science is the province of an academically inbred elite whose members are (like Gould) the former apprentices of great teachers and the confidants of similarly eminent scientists, novelists and sportswriters.
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As the confidant put it, "John capitulated".
It is not greed, the confidant insists.
But he also relishes being the confidant of the leader of the world's last superpower.
He was the lover of Ingrid Bergman and the confidant of Hemingway and Picasso.
The confidant spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal.
"We're talking about something that is diseased and insane," the confidant told the paper.
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