Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"What counts with a candidate for President is his character, and nothing shows it like his relationship with women. Here you have a man who is asking you to trust him with your bank account, your children, your life and your country for four years. If his own wife can...
James David Barber, Duke University historian and author of The Presidential Character
"This is a tragedy, a real loss for all of us, that a really impressive man has been brought down this way. The character of candidates and Presidents is crucial. But the media aren't able to deal adequately with real and total character; their judgments are based on such...
"It's legitimate to try to know all we can about a candidate. The moral and personal tone a President sets is as vital for the nation as his foreign policy. If we had known more about the character of some Presidents, we might not have elected them. Nonetheless, there...
One can almost hear the practiced seducer's rationalization: "What's the harm? Everyone got what they wanted, didn't they?" Heaven help us; it's close to being true. May, whose painstaking ways and modest grosses do not usually commend her to the studios, gets to work in something...