Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that if Nixon wins, Talmadge himself may follow them. At the same time, many Negroes and Mexican Americans who once supported Robert Kennedy may sit out the election. Says Theodore Brown, director of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: "Most blacks are saying, 'This is not our year; there's nothing out there...
Last week Edward Kennedy campaigned for Humphrey in Boston. Kennedy's brother-in-law Stephen Smith also offered to help. Senator George McGovern joined the Humphrey party in South Dakota. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership ratified George Meany's support and began an urgent, if belated drive to recapture the loyalty of unionists who have been drifting toward George Wallace. The United Auto Workers' liberal executive board-the least friendly labor group because of Walter Reuther's opposition to the war -formally endorsed Humphrey as well...
...must bear in mind the distinction between forceful leadership and stubborn willfulness. And he should not delude himself into thinking that he can do everything himself. America today cannot afford vest-pocket government, no matter who wears the vest. The President is trusted not to follow the fluctuations of the public-opinion polls but to bring his own best judgment to bear on the best ideas his Administration can muster. There are occasions on which a President must take unpopular measures. But his responsibility does not stop there. The President has a duty to decide, but the people have...
...coeds from the class of '67 have been told to start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere and sexless blue-uniformity in public. There the similarity, and the egalitarianism, ends. In the plush suburban...
...more acceptable to the Communists than any one of the present Saigon leaders, he makes it clear in an article in the current Foreign Affairs quarterly that they are not acceptable to him. To fight the Communists more effectively, he insists, Saigon must foster "rice-roots" participation and leadership. Minh describes the National Liberation Front as the "disloyal opposition wholly responsive to Hanoi. It is the true enemy in our midst." He adds pointedly: "As an organization, it cannot be dealt with by suasion or compromise, much less by coalition." That is pretty much what Thieu has been saying...