Word: nonpolitician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in his suite, Reagan spoke about the future-and, as always, of his credibility. "I still consider myself a nonpolitician, no matter what people think of the Schweiker selection," he said. Now it seemed an almost absurd claim. "My concern through this whole thing," he went on, "has been to retain my credibility." Reagan thought he had done that, but others saw it differently. Said a longtime political supporter in California: "He's lost his place as the high priest of the right. After Schweiker, all he can do is preach unity, not purity." Reagan intends to start...
...succession of Eastern European Jews, including Mrs. Meir, who arrived in Palestine in the first waves of immigration. He is the youngest Premier-designate; almost the age of the state of Israel itself (26 years) separates him from 76-year-old Mrs. Meir. He is also the first nonpolitician to hold the job. He made his reputation first as armed forces Chief of Staff and the architect of Israel's smashing six-day victory over the Arabs in the 1967 war, then as Israeli ambassador to Washington from...