Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johnson: Let's start with the positive qualities. This is a very serious man, a serious man who has informed himself on issues marvelously well. Intellect--a first-rate mind. Well-disciplined. Hard worker. Honorable--old-fashioned word. Integrity--I believe it, a lot of people don't. Those are all very positive things. And a desire that is maybe quite unusual: everyone wants to do well, but I think he particularly really wanted to do something superior, fine...
...woman-kind are of intellect deficient...
Therefore, Fowler concludes, Hancock was neither so wealthy, so radical, nor so distinguished as many around him. "He lacked the eloquence of Jefferson, the intellect of John Adams, and the character of Washington," Fowler admits...
...parched bones drying up in the desert." The warning was directed to both the next generation-"The youth of the world should unite. The adults failed"-and to women -"Maybe women should be entrusted with the responsibility for the world because they are led by emotion and not by intellect. Maybe they would do better than we did." Eichmann also discloses that he had been ordered to check out the racial origins of the "Diet Chief," the code name for Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun. It was discovered that Braun was one thirty-second Jewish...
...role in Viet Nam," he declares. "We were not immoral in our purpose." His right hand chops the air. "I'm sick and tired of apologizing for the United States." Instead of fudging, he frankly admits his lack of knowledge about some questions. "I have a good intellect," he will say. "But there is a hell of a lot I don't know. And I know I don't know it. That's the difference between me and Jimmy Carter...