Word: eisaku
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, it seemed that the bugles might blow forever. Tanaka wrapped up two major foreign policy missions that had eluded his cautious predecessor, Eisaku Sato: a reasonably successful meeting of the minds with Richard Nixon on U.S.-Japanese economic matters in Hawaii, and a historic summit with Chou En-lai in Peking. Tanaka was all over the headlines, the TV tube and even the bestseller lists -with an imaginative-sounding but ghostwritten book entitled A Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago, which offered some slick, idyllic proposals for controlling the country's urban sprawl...
Although only 19 of the 50 state Governors are Republicans, at least 40 are expected for the Inauguration. Japan's former Premier Eisaku Sato has accepted an invitation and will probably rub shoulders with names from business like Henry Ford and Kimball C. Firestone, and show-business types such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Comedian Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra will star at the entertainments to be held in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other performances will range from the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Pianist Van Cliburn, to Soul...
...second place with a 28% rating. If the Peking summit is successful, Tanaka may call a quick election, perhaps as early as next month, to add a public mandate to the Liberal Democratic Party vote that brought him the premiership last July, when longtime Premier and Party Chief Eisaku Sato retired at 71 (TIME, July...
Richard Nixon, who found Eisaku Sato maddeningly vague, emerged smiling from his meetings with Sato's successor at Honolulu, and said that Tanaka "was like a touch of fresh breeze." Observes one of the few Washington officials who know Tanaka well: "He is the kind of guy Nixon likes. He is polite but does not mince words. There is no time wasted on elaborate equivocation...
...even in what appeared to be strictly an affair of state as Nixon met Tanaka for the first time since the blunt and hearty Premier replaced Eisaku Sato last July, the major topic of discussion carried domestic political overtones for Nixon. His Administration is vulnerable to Democratic attack for the huge balance of payments deficit (4.1 billion in the first six months of 1972 and nearly $30 billion in 1971) that the U.S. faces. No other nation holds such a large advantage in its trade with the U.S. as Japan, which is expected to sell some $3.5 billion more...