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...Lodge has often said. "It's because of him that I went to the U.N." At the U.N., Lodge proved effective in a way he had never been in the Senate. Growing in stature and skill from one crisis to the next, he proved to be a tough battler in oratorical jousts with the Russians, insisting on the value of immediate reply, rather than waiting for Washington to draft something official and late. He also became surprisingly adept at rounding up Asian and African votes on important showdowns. The U.S. never lost in either the Security Council...
...Bumbling Battler. The next big round of the campaign will also be an unorthodox sort of political battle: the coming TV encounters, which both men will go into aware that their clashes before the cameras and microphones, watched by perhaps more than the estimated 45 million who viewed the conventions on TV, might decide the November outcome. Mindful that much will be at stake, the two candidates are working out the arrangements with care. Nixon, convinced that he is the better debater, wanted to limit the TV series to three sharp encounters. Kennedy, convinced that his looks and personality would...
Kennedy in contrast, for all his magic with crowds and his keen-minded calculations during his run for the nomination, showed himself something of a bumbling battler during the post-convention session. If he had stayed in the background, letting Johnson maestro the show, the results in legislation might have been the same, but Kennedy would not have been politically hurt. As it was, he damaged his image as an efficient and forceful leader by needlessly exposing himself to public defeats, tying his own prestige to getting a doomed package of welfare legislation enacted...
...galleries. Kennedy left it up to Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson-operating tirelessly in his familiar arena with his old verve-to lead the Democratic troops on the floor. Nixon, as Senate president, was barred by tradition from speaking out, or even moving onto the floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress. He got the session off to a fighting start with a first-blow message calling upon Congress to break the "legislative log jam" and enact 21 measures that he had been...
...Pickled Ear. Back in Venezuela he became a public battler against Gómez' strongman heir, General Eleazar López Contreras, toured the nation with thundering demands that López make way for a democratic election. Enraged, López Contreras in 1937 drove Betancourt and his followers underground, launched a hunt for him. Once government officials took an ear bitten from the head of a hapless gardener by a cop during a street fight, pickled it and displayed it as "Betancourt's ear"-as though they were capturing him piece by piece. Betancourt's daughter Virginia recalls that...