Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems have clearly piled up. But before a common will to tackle them can emerge, thus forming a consensus that would allow a leader to lead, the challenge must be perceived as a national crisis. World War II and the cold war were times of perceived
WILLIAM BUCKLEY, conservative columnist and editor (National Review): There's no one that I know of who has the potential grip on the imagination of the American people that would be conclusive enough to cause everybody to say "there is a leader" in the sense, for instance, that F.D.R. was, like him or loathe him. There is no American leader of anything like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout...
JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS, historian (Williams College): Very few widely known living Americans meet my rather exacting criteria of leaders who transform. John Sawyer was such a leader as president of Williams College during the 1960s, when he led the college in achieving badly needed social and educational reforms. Nationally, Cesar Chavez may be such a leader today...
DAVID RIESMAN, sociologist: Richard Lyman of Stanford University is one of the few college presidents who is a real leader. He had the courage to fire a radical professor at the cost of dividing his faculty. Dan Evans was an inventive Governor of Washington. He developed an independent VISTA program. Terry Sanford [former Governor of North Carolina] is really a great leader. He developed projects for multiracial groups that influenced the educational programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society...
THEODORE WHITE, author: Senator Pat Moynihan in the sense that he led an internal revolt against the dominant, the liberal tradition of the U.S. And Ralph Nader is a leader. He called the corporations to account. Ben Bradlee has been the supreme iconoclast of American journalists. He'd expose his own mother. He and Abe Rosenthal [executive editor of the New York Times] changed the course of American journalism. I'd also add CBS Producer Don Hewitt (60 Minutes) because he made reality exciting...