Word: hurriedness
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The first test of will happened only four months after Washington's Inauguration, when he dutifully called upon the Senate to ask its advice and consent to a treaty with Southern Indians. He brought with him his Secretary of War to explain the details. The treaty was read aloud...
Nobody hurried. Aboard his blue overnight train from Bonn, Ludwig Erhard snoozed for two hours on a siding along the Mosel so as not to get to Paris too soon. When he finally arrived at the Elysee Palace, Charles de Gaulle kept him waiting another 28 minutes.
Last week, of course, was anything but normal. Between hurried meetings with advisers, Indira greeted the throngs of people that came to her home, talking with each guest for about two minutes and then turning to welcome the next. Flowers cascaded into her house from well-wishers. Indira ordered them...
Kicking Out Communists. Whatever Indira's earlier predilections toward Communism may have been, her actions are apt to be tempered by recent experience. In the mid-1950s, Indira often returned from trips behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtain, bubbling about the beauties of Communism, but she turned out to be...
Lyndon Johnson came into the presidency worrying about the wisdom of large deficits and questioning the need for a tax cut, but he was convinced by the Keynesian economists around him, and hurried the measure through Congress. The quick success of the income-tax cuts prompted Congress to try a...