Word: avuncularity
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...Presidential Greatness. "They were eloquent with pen, as Jefferson was; or with tongue, as Franklin Roosevelt was; or with both, as Wilson and Lincoln were." Johnson is eloquent with neither. Harry Truman helped overcome a similar deficiency with a roof-raising style on the stump, Dwight Eisenhower with an avuncular manner that inspired confidence and trust. Johnson's official verbiage tends to be dull, and though he can be pungent and forceful in private, his public charisma is just about nil. He doesn't always look entirely "sincere," and he can't always. His effectiveness has been blunted...
Shedding the never-too-convincing guise of folksy preacher and avuncular counselor, he appeared before the TV cameras in the role he knows best-that of the combative, spontaneous, self-assured politician. At the same time Lyndon Johnson came across as an executive ready and willing at last to assert his leadership...
...emotional worship of the Communist world, an obsessive determination to succeed in all things. Unlike Castro, however, he was cool and pragmatic. The same Che who could calmly order a comrade beheaded for a breach of discipline would sit around a campfire for hours afterward, leading an avuncular discussion of Marxist doctrine or reciting his favorite Marxist poets...
...Less than an hour before the imprisonment order came through, he announced in Baltimore that Teamster General Vice President Frank Fitzsimmons, 58, would take over the 1,800,000-man union in the event of his own "absence." A onetime bus driver and dockworker, the portly Fitzsimmons has an avuncular appearance that belies his 31-year career as a Teamster organizer, mostly with Hoffa's tough home local, No. 299, in Detroit...
...against Article 20 when his car was demolished. Chief of State Thieu delivered the answer anyway: the generals would keep their veto. To do otherwise, he said, would "betray the confidence of the voters," who had elected the assembly with the understanding that the present government would keep an avuncular watch over all decisions. Urged on by a letter from Dan sent from his convalescent bed, the assembly vowed to continue to press its case against the government...