Word: candor
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Gerald R. Ford, LL.D., President. The 38th President helps us recognize again the importance of forthright leadership, the resolve of courage in difficult times, the decency and candor defining the essential American character...
...unfortunately, Exley had run out of steam, or at least material. All of his best thoughts and experiences are in Notes, and for all its attempts at coy humor and shocking candor, Pages from a Cold Island is without substance. Perhaps to compensate, or to fill the cold pages. Exley turned to a self-indulgent approach full of distracting asides which reduce Pages to a book about writing the book...
...extracts more services than it replaces--then it must be open in formulating and presenting its development plans. Harvard must be willing to bargain in good faith and be receptive to community input on University decisions that affect surrounding neighborhoods. But Harvard's policy has not been one of candor. The University has not been all that frank or intelligent in its dealings with the community...
Though Hersey himself does not render the verdict, his meticulous accounting supports the impression of other President watchers: the Ford White House, for all its genuine warmth, ease and candor, is somehow lacking in ideas and depth. Ford emerges as a decent caretaker, bent on restoration but not renovation of a fine house that had lately fallen into bad hands...
...Defense Department briefing rooms. "There is a sense of candor among the military men," Kane observed. "No one is talking about corners to be turned or lights at the end of tunnels...