Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STAGGERING CHANGE IN EISENHOWER, the staggered London Daily Mail reported: "The sick man leaning away from leadership has become the keen-eyed, confident head of state ready to cope with anything." The Manchester Guardian was almost mystic in its praise: "Something deeper and nobler than a passion for a political prize now guides the President's conduct...
...Captioned "Little Roosevelt! ! !-The Grand Old Party Must Be Hard-Up!," the 1884 cartoon by Joseph Keppler shows Republican Bigwigs Frank Hiscock, Chauncey Depew, Horace Porter. Henry Cabot Lodge and Stephen B. Elkins gathered clockwise around Theodore Roosevelt and dressing him in the armor of party leadership...
...Khrushchev and his deputy, Frol Kozlov, are the only top Communists who are able to get through to the people across the extraordinary gap of class distinction that separates the Communist hierarchy from the people. Communist leadership in general has failed to develop any enthusiasm or support for the system itself; this lack of enthusiasm does not promise incipient revolution, but does promise minds receptive to logical Western argument...
...your issue of July 13, you inferred that I was engaging in a revolt against the leadership of Lyndon Johnson. That was not how I felt about it. He is the ablest majority leader in the history of the Senate. Don't blame me because I tried to persuade Johnson to do things my way. He persuades me to do them his way often enough...
...trying to steal the presidential nomination) and a new outbreak of demands that he be fired. Pennsylvania's powerful Governor Dave Lawrence rebuked Butler for washing party linen in public, and West Coast Democrats were still shooting angry sparks because Butler had deleted praise for congressional Democratic leadership from a letter that California's Governor Pat Brown had sent in accepting membership on the liberal-hued Democratic Advisory Council...