Word: blunderer
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...hammer in his pocket isn't alone in wanting to go down in history. Presidents can feel the urge with equally disastrous results. Richard Nixon's need to keep the tapes was his downfall, and Gerald Ford's last grand gesture, proposing statehood for Puerto Rico, was his last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when he announced during a skiing trip at Vail that he would...
Chirac makes decisions impulsively and quickly-a trait that some observers predict will sooner or later lead him into a fatal blunder. Observes National Assembly President Edgar Faure: "Giscard plays bridge. Chirac plays poker." Gaullist leader Yves Guena looks at Chirac's propensity to take political gambles somewhat differently: "Chirac's real genius is his intuition...
...minority party, the Republicans have a formidable flock of other vote getters, mostly young moderates. Tennessee's Howard Baker Jr., 50, the ranking Republican on the Senate Watergate committee, was passed over by Gerald Ford for the vice-presidential nomination-in what now seems to have been a blunder. Baker, intensely ambitious and able, may well become an active candidate for the top job. Still another possibility, though he begins from a small base, is Iowa's enormously popular Governor Robert D. Ray, a tireless campaigner who often ends a day of politicking with a family snack...
Before, Penn had to commit one more blunder, a Craig Renfrew fumble which Bob Baggott, who, like the entire defense, played another great game, a point which should be obvious by now, and who has to be the best defensive end in the Winthrop-I entry, if not the entire league, recovered on the Penn...
Although the price increases were rescinded in the wake of mass strikes, the arrest of several thousand rioting workers proved to be yet another government blunder. The subsequent trials of about 100 rioters served to unite workers, intellectuals, students and the still powerful Roman Catholic Church against the regime. In a recent sermon, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, 75, the revered Primate of Poland, lamented from the pulpit that "it is painful when workers must struggle for their rights from a workers' government...