Word: nixon
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...then cracks had marred the diamond's surface. "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters," Bob Dylan sang in 1965, coincidentally staking out his own rogue claim to leadership. QUESTION AUTHORITY, added an unknown sloganeer. Vietnam and Watergate further confused and corroded. Nixon was a month from resigning. America, TIME suggested in 1974, seemed plagued by "a sense of unease, not only of giants having departed but also of mere competence being all too scarce." When the magazine repeated the exercise in 1979 during Jimmy Carter's third year (Presidents in trouble seem to inspire us), the trend...
...lack of trying. Twenty years ago, who would have imagined that H. Ross Perot, then a 44-year-old founder of a computer-software company, would win 19% of the vote as a third-party candidate in the 1992 election? George Bush-nemesis Pat Buchanan, a 35-year-old Nixon aide, made the 1974 list, as did presidential aspirants Jack Kemp, then 38 and a two-term Congressman, and Joseph Biden, at 31, the Senate's youngest member. As for perennial presidential almost-aspirant William Bradley, who in '74 was 30 years old and still a Knick, we wrote that...
...where have they led us, yesterday's leaders of tomorrow? In the summer of 1974, shortly before Richard Nixon became the first President ever to resign, TIME, perceiving a crisis of leadership in America, presented its "Faces for the Future," 200 men and women, age 45 and under, who could "assume leadership roles in the right circumstances -- and given the right spirit of the country." Five years later, TIME chose a new portfolio of "faces for the future" -- 50 more people in the same age category whom the editors identified as emerging leaders. Without seeming immodest, we may observe that...
...leadership than dropping out of the primaries just after Super Tuesday, however. Marian Wright Edelman, mentor of Hillary, then and now director of the Children's Defense Fund, was named in 1974. So was Dan Rather, coming off an excellent season of confrontational Watergate-related press conferences with President Nixon; Rather replaced Walter Cronkite as the anchor for the CBS Evening News in 1981 and has remained in the job, solo or accompanied, ever since. Another television journalist, Barbara Walters, then 43, also made the 1974 list. TIME called her "TV's first lady of talk...
...Democratic Party has spawned Roosevelt, Kennedy and O'Neill; the Republicans have given us Nixon and McCarthy. The word "liberal" is a progressive one with a long and proud history in this country and, by refusing to carry its standard high, the representatives of the Democratic Party are doing a disservice to all those who have fought on the legislative front, the legal front, and even the battlefront to establish its ideals...