Word: candidate
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...close friends say no. To them, Hart can be warm and trusting, perhaps too much so. "When he trusts somebody, he is very candid," says Denver Lawyer Hal Haddon, who has known Hart since 1968. "And some of the people he trusts are going to burn him publicly. He's not been burned as much as he is going to be burned...
While they won't all admit it this has to be the question on pundits minds this year as they take a candid look at the upcoming presidential year. Few incumbents have ever entered their reelection campaigns in as commanding a position as Reagan does this year: certainly even fewer have so easily convinced the media and the general public of it. Three years into his presidency, Reagan still is coasting on an approval rating that hovers in the 60 percent range. He has posted an impressive series of legislative victories and is gaining a lion's share...
...changed this. We've tried to bring a new honesty and moral purposefulness to our foreign policy, to show we can be candid about the essential differences between ourselves and others while still pursuing peace initiatives with them. For us, human freedom is a first principle, not a bargaining chip...
...center of world affairs and trying to shape events are neglected in presidential literature. Most Presidents cannot describe their feelings; some are fearful lest such a confession make them seem power hungry, which is an occasional of at that level. Jerry Ford, perhaps the most modest and candid of the recent presidential crop, explained once while in power, "I can't wait to get to the office each morning to see what problems there are and try to do something about them...
...Secretary wanted a candid report," said he, "and we gave...