Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy's failure to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne from his submerged car in July 1969 as well as his failure to seek help? Many reporters thought so. But Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indignantly denied the connection. Quite correctly, Powell pointed out that Kennedy had raised the leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty damn good-to give up the right to point...
...followed his strategy to hit Kennedy hard and early, Carter assailed the Senator's leadership claims in other ways last week. Declared the President at the New York town meeting: "Senator Kennedy has been in Congress 16 years. His major premise, or goal, has been to establish a comprehensive national health insurance policy for our country. He is chairman of the health subcommittee in the Senate. He's never gotten a comprehensive health bill out of his subcommittee." And by contrast, Carter could have cited one major example of his own legislative success last week: the passage...
...whether Carter had or had not meant to refer to Chappaquiddick, he sent Kennedy a handwritten note, which began: "I won't make a habit of this." That was a quip referring to sending letters to the Senator, rather than a promise not to say anything similar about leadership in the future. Carter said nothing personal had been intended by his comments. Kennedy refused to term the President's note an apology, saying merely, "I appreciate his sending it to me." Did Kennedy expect Carter to make an issue of Chappaquiddick? Replied the Senator: "No, I think...
...like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland, 57, who is expected to succeed Meany, is esteemed for his intellect but not for his leadership. Partly for love of power, partly for love of labor, Meany put off the day of reckoning as long as he could. Now American labor is going to have to learn to live without...
Founded in 1929 by the republic's second postrevolutionary President, Plutarco Elias Calles, and shaped by a leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official...