Word: governs
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After his White House years, Henry Kissinger concluded that a successful President should have two complete teams-one to handle his politics and the other to move in and govern. The skills and attitudes needed for the two functions are so dissimilar, said Kissinger, that if a President maintained his campaign mentality too long, his Administration tended to be preoccupied with political process rather than results. Regrettably, neither Reagan nor Mondale seems to grasp that truth...
...blurring of the line between public life and private life. In public life there are hierarchies of money, power and talent because that is the practical way to get things done. In private life, everyone can be equal. To blur the distinctions causes pain. To let money govern private relations is immoral. And to the child's traditional question "Why?", Miss Manners proposes the traditional answer "Because...
...would not come out the way it did. But let me say that it went beyond all my expectations. And I think that everybody was surprised by the results. This gives the people an opportunity to think optimistically about the future. I think that I have proved that this government can govern the country, that this government is capable of making its own decisions, that this government was able to open up the door that was almost impossible to open. And this is the concept behind the dialogue, that this government now has the full backing of the world...
...recapture territory, local politics keeps dividing them. Churchill supports Charles de Gaulle as the leader of Free France; Roosevelt dislikes and distrusts the general. "The day he arrived [in Casablanca]," F.D.R. comments bitterly, "he thought he was Joan of Arc." And when De Gaulle keeps pressing his claim to govern North Africa, Roosevelt explodes, "Why doesn't De Gaulle go to war? Why doesn't he start [marching]? It would take him a long time to get to the Oasis of Somewhere...
...Soviet Union had wanted to ban all atomic weapons, and the U.S. had refused. Right, answered Reagan; that was when the Soviets did not have the bomb. But when Bernard Baruch proposed an international tribunal to govern nuclear weapons, it was the Soviets who balked...