Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take part in a coalition Cabinet in which the Chancellor, as one Kiesinger aide put it, is no more than "a walking mediation committee," Strauss has been touting himself as the dynamic leader of a right-wing movement that stands ready to take over the country's leadership. Accordingly, he has come out against the coalition on three major issues...
...aggressive new chief is likely to depart from Blough's cautious, somewhat remote style of leadership. More than that, the elevation of Gott-who started his career wearing the greasy overalls and grimy face of an industrial engineer in a U.S. Steel plant-represents a victory of the production men over the financial experts and lawyers who have traditionally run the company...
...total access to the President will be an obvious advantage. Senator Jacob Javits thinks the Nixon-Rogers relationship "might be like that of John and Robert Kennedy." If so, State may regain some of the influence it lost to the Pentagon when it could not compete with the strong leadership of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara...
...would dearly like to have the job of Chief Justice. While some Senators could probably delay the Goldberg confirmation by filibustering, Senate reaction is generally favorable to the nomination. The question is whether, even at the end of his reign, Johnson is willing to place his domes tic leadership on trial again. At stake is the ideological complexion that the Supreme Court will assume for many years to come...
...judgment. His legitimacy as a leader was clearly not dependent on his attachment to the "master" and his own status as a "house nigger." Add to this the fact that the blacks were overawed by his ability and desire to read and we have a somewhat more logical leadership figure than is presented in Mr. Styron's Turner...