Word: acumen
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...scripted deification of President Nixon reflected the political acumen of men like Senator Robert Dole (R-Ken), the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Clark MacGregor, John Mitchell's successor as head of the Committee to Reelect the President. It pivoted on the tremendous funds which these men have at their disposal. A $44,000 podium designed for maximum television exposure, the most sophisticated electronics ever employed at a political convention, a series of documentary films highlighting the President, his family and his party--it was a staggering example of what money can buy and of how well-financed...
...devotees of pure rock, there is numbingly dreary rhythm and somnolent guitar work. For connoisseurs of modesty, there is this blurb on the record jacket by the album's producer, Ronald Budnik: "It is hoped that Axelrod's work will bring to light and punctuate the creative acumen of Handel...
ARLIN ADAMS, 50, of Philadelphia, on the Third Circuit. He has an extensive background in private practice, interrupted by three years as Governor William Scranton's secretary of public welfare. Lawyers admire both his integrity and his legal acumen. Like many of the Nixon nominees, he is a tough law-and-order man but, adds Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, he is also "a sensitive human being...
Nixon's first choice for a successor to Hugo Black was Virginia Representative Richard Poff, a Republican conservative admired for legal acumen by his colleagues in the House. The President was prepared to nominate Poff without further consideration. But the Congressman, who had said that his life's ambition was to sit on the Supreme Court, abruptly withdrew his name from consideration, unwilling to subject himself to the investigation and debate that he knew would follow. Mitchell then came up with Charles Clark of Mississippi and Paul Roney of Florida, both of whom Nixon had appointed to the Fifth Circuit...
...from the Eisenhower era's reliance on massive retaliation, so he pursued what was then considered a liberal course. He prepared for conventional war to combat Communism wherever it appeared to threaten American interests. Yet he helped lead the nation into a war of unforeseen magnitude. His business acumen enabled him to gain control of the sprawling Defense establishment. Yet he was so infatuated with statistics that he was long blinded to the human factors in the Viet Nam conflict. It was a puzzling outcome for a man who had entered Government renowned for his humane instincts as well...