Word: diplomatists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Kennedy and Johnson highly valued O'Brien's skills as a political diplomatist and used him as their liaison officer with the often fractious Congress. Some have argued, with only slight exaggeration, that O'Brien is responsible for passage of the bulk of New Frontier and Great Society legislation. Even after Johnson rewarded him with the postmaster-generalship in 1965, O'Brien continued his liaison work on the Hill...
...affairs all week. The meeting substituted reality for rhetoric. And it gave two men, astonishingly alike in their experience of power and their awareness of its limitations, an unexampled opportunity to confront and assess one another. Neither Lyndon Johnson nor Aleksei Kosygin has ever won high acclaim as a diplomatist, but their first encounters proved that both men are as equally equipped for such a conference as any two statesmen the two nations have yet fielded simultaneously...
Full Stocking. France's monumental diplomatist of the 19th century was Talleyrand, who, said Mirabeau, would sell his soul for money, "and he would be right, for he would be exchanging dung for gold." Where Richelieu spoke for a powerful and united France, Talleyrand's 19th century role was most often like De Gaulle's: to make the world pay heed to a beaten, broken France. Superbly confident, cool under the worst conditions, Talleyrand once sat calmly through an hour-long tirade by Napoleon Bonaparte and heard himself called everything from a liar and a traitor...
...born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...
Then at last it was Couve de Murville's turn. Couve, a brilliant, civilized, highly trained diplomatist, who among his colleagues would usually be seeking any new avenue of compromise, was now plainly little more than a messenger boy for le grand Charles. "It is being said that we broke off the negotiations." he declared. "In reality, our responsibility has been that of making clear that the negotiations have been taking place in a vacuum since October, and of having said that it is preferable to face the facts." Then he echoed the boss again: "When Britain can accept...