Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his formidable lead, Bush has not really turned on the voters. Pollsters find that voters are choosing him without enthusiasm, like restaurant patrons picking succotash over turnips. Bush thus remains vulnerable to any event that could cause people to doubt his character or judgment. His running mate, Dan Quayle, is still a drag. Though elections are not decided on the qualities of the vice-presidential candidates, this campaign has the feel of an exceptional one in which significant numbers of voters are disturbed by the possibility of a President Quayle. Some 54% of those questioned in a Wall Street...
What will historians say about Winston Churchill a hundred years from now? The question is pertinent -- inescapable, in fact, because nearly a quarter- century after his death, we may remain too close to make an accurate judgment. Of all the larger-than-life figures of World War II -- Roosevelt, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini -- Churchill remains the hardest to assess. Rarely has a great leader been so often right. Or so often wrong...
They claim Goodwin, ignorant of Johnson's ways and untrained in psychiatry, has no right to psychoanalyze the President of the United States. His random quotes from psychiatric textbooks and his few unnamed psychiatrist friends do not constitute an informed medical judgment. Most importantly, Goodwin, a Kennedy man at heart, really didn't know Johnson, having worked under him for less than two years. These arguments are persuasive and demonstrate the dangers in armchair psychiatry...
...July 27, 1980, Radio Tehran announced the death of "the bloodsucker of the century." The judgment was self-serving and exaggerated the Shah's stature. Shawcross's story of a pawn in King's clothing comes to a sorrier conclusion. The Shah's reign, this book suggests, was less a study in the banality of evil than the banality of pride...
...central issue of the Omaha debate was whether the 41-year-old Senator from Indiana had the intellect, temperament and judgment necessary to move into the presidency. Three times Quayle was thrown off balance when asked what he would do if he had to take over from George Bush. Quayle could only sputter bland inanities before falling back on his script about his congressional accomplishments. On his third try, he compared the length of his experience with that of John Kennedy in 1960. It proved a fatal flirtation with one of America's most enduring myths. With precision and rhetorical...