Word: handed
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...Lyndon. But the odes to Lyndon Johnson were far more meaningful. Indiana's Freshman Vance Hartke (an avowed political enemy of fellow Hoosier Butler, who opposed Hartke's nomination last year) fairly wooed the muse: "His hand has been firm on the tiller, insisting that the ship of state not founder on the rocks of partisanship. No one who has sat in this chamber could question for a moment the man most responsible for this state of the nation. He is Lyndon B. Johnson." Other Democrats of every persuasion fell in line to praise Johnson and his program...
...Hand. Last week this half-hidden conflict cracked the disciplined front of Socialism and opened the way for a decisive change in the 90-year-old party's leadership. Party Chairman Erich Ollenhauer, 58, the colorless compromiser who has held his post through two smashing election defeats precisely because the party could not make up its mind about its future, abruptly announced that he was stepping down as a candidate for Chancellor next time. In a sense it was Nikita Khrushchev who forced the decision. Last March Leftist Social Democrats put over a new party program, hoping to reunify...
Sipping green tea in his 30-room official residence last week. Premier Nobusuke Kishi ignored the dangling ropes and scaffolds outside his open window as workmen installed air conditioning on an upper floor. Even when a heavy window frame slipped from a worker's hand and landed with a splintering crash on the ground, the smooth flow of Kishi's talk and his relaxed manner did not change...
...Europe to be non-puritanical in its politics. Europe has consistently sacrificed man in the flesh to theory in the abstract. The French and Russian Revolutions were Procrustean; if human beings did not fit the bed of Utopia, their heads were chopped off. The American Revolution, on the other hand, assumed that the state was made for man. The founding fathers, suggests Bruckberger, had the uncommon sense to recognize that the people "have no right to deify and worship themselves." Thus the U.S. was spared the terrible idolatry of the 20th century's false god, the totalitarian state...
...distinguished for having drawn the wrath of Chief Justice Earl Warren (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York Herald Tribune Reporter Earl Mazo recalls that when Nixon gave the 1954 commencement address at Whittier College, two separate receiving lines were necessary-for those who were ready to shake Nixon's hand and for those who refused to. This book, which is basically friendly toward Nixon, may switch some readers from the non-handshaking to the handshaking column. But most of all, what it offers is 1) some fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses of an extraordinary political career; 2) further material...