Word: bryce
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...Burch, who was a key strategist in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard L. Herman, former national committeeman from Nebraska. From the left are former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and Robert Douglass, a New York attorney who is close to Nelson Rockefeller. In the center are Bryce Harlow, an old White House hand (now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble) who was an adviser to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon; former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longtime congressional ally of Ford's; and another old friend, Leon Parma, group executive for Teledyne, Inc. in San Diego, who served...
...Cabinet heads on a rotating basis. Periodically, members of the intellectual and academic community, rounded up by White House Aide Robert Goldwin, come to lunch or dinner to exchange or offer ideas. The President is also in the habit of soliciting the views of trusted outsiders: longtime Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin Representative John Byrnes, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and William Whyte, a U.S. Steel vice president and lobbyist who also plays golf with the President...
...classic 1888 study of American politics, Lord Bryce titled one chapter "Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents...
Between a brilliant and a safe man, he thought, parties would invariably mediocrity," choose the thought safe. Bryce; "The he likes a ordinary voter President does to not be object to sensible, vigorous and magnetic, but "does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity or a wide knowledge. Great men are not in quiet times absolutely needed...
...NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and White House Counsellor John O. Marsh Jr. The four were careful to sound out the views of the Cabinet and a wide circle of Ford's advisers and confidants, including Melvin Laird, the former Congressman and Secretary of Defense; Bryce Harlow, an aide to both Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon; and Michigan's Robert Griffin, G.O.P. whip in the Senate...