Word: fleeson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something-for-everybody is, of course, the danger of not-enough-for-any-body. Even before his message, liberals were berating Kennedy for acting too cautiously. Liberal Columnist Doris Fleeson predicted that Congress would open "without suspense or a ringing challenge by President Kennedy," and the New York Times warned that "the President must ask himself how much he dares dilute his program in order to get what is left of it approved. The question is dangerous: he could succeed as a politician and fail as a statesman." Last week the Times was disappointed. "This was not a fighting speech...
...barber neatly spread a white cloth in front of the presidential desk, lifted a chair onto the cloth and began snipping away. The President of the U.S. tilted back his chair, picked up his afternoon paper, and smiled happily. "Now," he said, "I'm going to read Doris Fleeson...
...Cuba, irresolution in Laos, and humiliation in space-one after another the blows landed, and even such Kennedy enthusiasts as Columnist Walter Lippmann winced as they found flaws in their onetime hero; the background editorial music, so bright and lilting at inauguration time, turned dissonant and harsh. Columnist Doris Fleeson, a onetime Stevensonian who had been willing enough to cheer for the President, now decided that "golden boy" had responded to adversity with "something less than the grace expected...
Action needs definition, and both press and politicians have been wondering what to call President Kennedy and his New Frontiersmen. In the first week, "pragmatic liberals" was the vogue. Then Doris Fleeson, den mother of the liberal columnists, thought she had a better term: "contemporary" Democrats. After the State of the Union speech, the New York Times chipped in with "cautious activist...
...machine precision of Kennedy's political strategy gave Columnist Doris Fleeson a sudden chill. "Efficiently, almost coldly," she wrote, "President-elect Kennedy and his new team of intellectuals, investment bankers, management experts and bright young men are taking over their Washington assignments. But it is already clear that a fascinating and power-laden quality is sadly lacking-and that is personal fervor, with all that it means in warmth, excitement and flair . . . The art or trick of leadership is not just rational action, but articulation of it in ways that reach the public's heart as well...