Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of distrust of social idealism that could be interpreted as being "soft on communism." The University had to defend its essential function of free inquiry, exploration of truth against those who brandished bureaucratic axes under the banner of patriotism. The University bent, but did not break, thanks to leadership from Paul Buck, the Provost, and Nathan M. Pusey '28, who became president. Buck called me into his office in 1953 when the issue was firing a tenured professor for his communist affiliation. "Stay here until I come back," he said, "I am going to see the Corporation...
...make plans to win a straw vote of the state party convention in November. At the state convention in 1975, Carter began his successful campaign to win the Florida primary and thus end George Wallace's presidential candidacy. Said Organizer Mike Abrams: "The country is starving for leadership...
Canadians have plenty of questions about Clark's inexperience and leadership qualities but relatively few about his sincerity and diligence. "We will not take this nation by storm, by stealth or by surprise," he once promised his fellow Tories. "We will win it by work...
Though he denies plans to forge an alliance that would challenge Democratic chiefs on money and tax matters, Jones nonetheless has a growing following of members who look to him for leadership...
...numbers of missiles and warheads. It is not expressed in how tough Americans can be with the Soviets, or anybody else abroad. It is expressed precisely in how tough Americans are willing to be with themselves. A damaging slackness, a widespread fecklessness have grown evident not only in American leadership and corporations but in U.S. society at large...