Word: foresighted
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...European country could go through the same upheaval without civil war," he adds. "The U.S. is still healthier than any other country." America's problem is that it tends to direct its attention to dealing with and solving immediate problems while "the necessity is for discipline and foresight to carry out necessary measures that cannot in advance be proven to be necessary...
...line, Pentagon-oriented cold warrier" and citing his "stinginess toward domestic social programs" (including fights against Medicare, housing bills, minimum wage raises, mass transit funds, and the poverty program), goes on to declare that "in spite of his votes, his partisanship and his public appearance, Mr. Ford had the foresight and flexibility to make some necessary changes in the Republican way of doing things in Congress." His naming of certain moderates to a Republican research committee is taken as sufficient evidence to "suggest a willingness to compromise, as President, in the spirit of his 25 years as Congressman...
...else to go. Butler's Democratic opponent, Roanoke Sheriff Paul Puckett, has been attacking the G.O.P. Congressman for foot dragging on impeachment. The Roanoke Times reports that letters are running about 3 to 2 against Butler, but the mail flow is very light. Most important, Butler had the foresight to prepare his constituents for the impeachment process. Says Charles McDowell, Washington correspondent and columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "He's spent a lot of time teaching his district the majesty of the thing and bringing his people along." Though political observers feel that disenchanted Nixonites will stay...
OMAR BRADLEY, U.S. general: George Marshall. He had the imagination and foresight and leading genius to prepare this nation for war. Franklin Roosevelt -a great President. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Charles de Gaulle-he pulled France through. I did not agree with him on many points, but he was all Frenchman...
...while general counsel for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Rigidly conservative, Mardian later showed much anti-radical fervor but little savvy as chief of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Disappointed when he did not earn a higher position in the Nixon Administration, he said with foresight about the Nixon camp: "When things are going great they ignore me, but when things get screwed up, they lean on me." He was indicted for conspiracy...