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    1. According to a memoir presented by the parliament of Bourdeaux to the king, in 1764, the whole public debt ot France is estimated at twenty-four hundred millions of livres; of which the capital, for which annuities for lives had been granted, is supposed to amount to three hundred millions, the eighth part of the whole public debt


    2. This current had to be channelled into an equivalent medium, so I began to write the stories that appear in this memoir


    3. On the other hand, Ezekiel was a different memoir


    4. She died in 2004 in satisfaction, knowing that my memoir, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Memoir of the Sixties and Beyond, was finished


    5. So this New Year‘s Eve I dreamed the end of my mother‘s memoir


    6. think I will actually call it a blogover memoir


    7. example on a book we have published, "Cotswolds Memoir" which retails for


    8. From The Editors: The subtitle to Stephen King's On Writing, his missive on the art and craft that have made him rich and famous, is "A Memoir of the Craft


    9. The writer informed me that the work seemed to be intended as a memoir for family members


    10. The Substance of Things Hoped for: A Memoir of African-American Faith, (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1995), 48

    11. Eric wrote about their accomplishments in Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth Of An Acre, And The Making Of An Edible Garden Oasis In The City, which might be more of a memoir, published in 2013


    12. Her memoir is a captivating narrative that will stand in history as testament to the power of women, faith and the spirit of our great country


    13. John Lewis – Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1999: Mariner Books)


    14. memoir, Hitler was released from prison in a general amnesty of political prisoners


    15. A couple of months? And here he was, caressing and fondling another woman, contemplating a life with her, his wife and children receding in memory, soon to become nothing more than a footnote in his life’s memoir


    16. “How nicely you’ve put it; I’m glad you have it in you to make my memoir as memorable as possible,’ he said, and continued with his tale


    17. gotten there is no large international ongoing memoir of this par-


    18. “If what I hear about the publishing world is true, then all your effort might come to naught, but still, if you’re passionate about it, and are prepared to face the ordeal that getting published is, then go ahead forthwith for why deny the benefits of contemplating over my misled life for those who might die before I cease? If ever my memoir makes a difference to one person, then I can see some purpose in my meaningless life and should it find a place in the best-seller charts, well, who knows which books get there, all the better it is for you


    19. He picked up the next instalment of the memoir


    20. In my memoir Omar and Juliet, I gave an account of my days with Basil (Omar) and my loss of virginity at 19

    21. That period of my life with Basil as a neighbor is well documented in a memoir I called Omar and Juliet


    22. I wrote regarding the two of them in another short memoir of my London days with the title La Belle Isabel


    23. The London period up to his marriage I recounted in a memoir called Omar and Juliet


    24. If an entire American Nation can be hoodwinked by the Media for two years by having a news blackout; through the idiotically simple ploy of focusing upon one news ‘story’ as incrementally unimportant as Monica Lewinsky… and then turn around and have a news blackout of the entire illegality of the stolen Presidential Election, and then have an even larger censoring blackout of the illegality and corruption of two years of Bush’s reign in office including the news blackout of the entire World’s opinion and attitude towards Bush’s power-military dictatorship… by bringing up yet again Clinton’s memoir of Monica Lewinsky… What happened in the rest of the world; during those years when there was no news except this one ludicrous scandal?


    25. But there is no memoir of Satan pour servir


    26. Thus lately I myself wrote a considerable tract, a memoir of over seventy-two pages, entitled, 'Cider, its Manufacture and its Effects, together with some New Reflections on the Subject,'


    27. " He cited himself among the first of the members of the jury, and he even called attention in a note to the fact that Monsieur Homais, chemist, had sent a memoir on cider to the agricultural society


    28. Just two years ago, Patti published a tell-all memoir about life in the “dysfunctional” Reagan family


    29. Reagan’s key line, which he uttered spontaneously, happens the moment the young man looks down and sees that his legs are gone: “Where’s the rest of me?” It later became the title of his 1965 memoir


    30. The competition did not end at the convention, with Nancy making it a point to write critically of Betty Ford in her 1989 memoir, My Turn

    31. Skinner, Annelise Andersen, and Martin Anderson, particularly Reagan: A Life in Letters and Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America; Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan; Kitty Kelley, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography; Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984–1988; Nancy Reagan, My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan; John R


    32. In his memoir Nixon wrote, “Calley’s crime was inexcusable,” but the critics “were not really as interested in the moral questions raised by the Calley case as they were interested in using it to make political attacks against the Vietnam war


    33. In his memoir RN, Nixon wrote, “I created a new Cabinet-level position, Counselor to the President, for my old friend and adviser Arthur Burns


    34. Nixon later wrote in his memoir that he had the taping system installed because he wanted his administration to be “the best chronicled in history


    35. Tapes could be used for his memoir or any other books he might author, he wrote


    36. “Although I was not comfortable with the idea of taping people without their knowledge, I was at least confident that the secrecy of the system would protect their privacy,” he wrote in his memoir


    37. In his memoir, Nixon found it worth revealing how his connection with Burger went back to 1952, a crucial and perilous point in Nixon’s career


    38. According to Nixon’s memoir they said, “Your Minnesota friends have complete confidence in your personal and political integrity


    39. Haig sets the scene in his second memoir, Inner Circles


    40. In his memoir White House Years Kissinger said the announcement of the trip by Nixon shook the world

    41. The seven paragraphs that Nixon uses in his memoir include the following strong assertions of his determination: (All the emphasis is Nixon’s


    42. What he left out of his memoir was a description of the means


    43. In his memoir, Nixon does not even acknowledge that Kissinger made a proposal for such a “bilateral arrangement,” and writes that he categorically rejected such a concept and would not even entertain the thought


    44. In his memoir, Nixon writes, “I immediately sent a message to [Premier] Pham Van Dong through the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris, reminding Hanoi that we had always taken the position that we could not proceed unilaterally” without the participation of South Vietnam


    45. In his memoir, Kissinger also does not mention or acknowledge his favored course


    46. In his memoir Kissinger goes further


    47. It would be naive in the extreme not to realize that this is the way diplomacy is often conducted, but in his memoir published five years after Nixon’s resignation, Kissinger masks the truth by selective use of his cables


    48. In the midst of the new bombing and with the reelection behind him, Nixon wrote in his memoir that he sent “the strongest letter I had yet written to Thieu


    49. Dean later wrote in his memoir, Blind Ambition, that he too was surprised there was no follow-up


    50. Al Haig, who had taken over as Nixon’s chief of staff just two months earlier, said in his overlooked 1992 memoir, Inner Circles, that he knew some tapes were made in the Nixon White House but Butterfield’s testimony came as an unimaginable surprise























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    "memoir" definitions

    an account of the author's personal experiences


    an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic