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Perhaps the kindest cut is that Barzel's image has been compared with that of both Lyndon Johnson, as a behind-the-scenes manipulator, and Richard Nixon, as an ambitious opportunist. Barzel tells his aides that "the people should look at what I have done, not just at my image." Even so he has been trying to improve that image by toning down his speaking style and trying to project himself as a thoughtful, issue-oriented leader...
...seems to be as intoxicating as alcohol. Even that master of precooked prose, Richard Nixon, could not resist a pun on the morning after he was elected to the presidency. Referring to a presidential seal that Julie had stitched and framed for him, Nixon described it as "the kindest thing that I had happen, even though it's crewel." That conjures up the frightening vision of a Nixon-Muskie race in which the two candidates pun for the presidency...
Brooks' warm personality was a major factor in Cahalan's decision to apply to Harvard instead of Yale. "He's the kindest, gentlest guy I've ever met," Cahalan said last month...
...your shipping-millionaire Greeks, and he sounds a lot more fun than Prince Philip." In Paris, Liz Taylor agreed. "Have you ever met him?" she challenged critics of the match. "Well, then stop all this nonsense. He is the most charming, the most appealing, the kindest man around. He is one of the most considerate people I know...
...Brinton as an advisor for his Ph.D. thesis, felt that the man was best in small tutorial groups, and that in these situations Brinton retained an informal yet critical style. As one colleague put it: "Crane Brinton, besides having a lively and wide ranging mind, was one of the kindest and most generous men I have ever known. He viewed the world with a genial skeptcism that permitted him to judge with humane indulgence the foibles of his fellow...