Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often been said by his friends that from childhood on, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was condemned to succeed. He was born with the gifts of good looks and intellectual brilliance from a patrician background. Almost effortlessly, he rose to become one of France's youngest and most powerful Finance Ministers. A few days before his election as President of France, Giscard granted an exclusive interview to TIME Correspondent George Taber. Relaxing over a snack of Roquefort cheese and champagne aboard the Mystere executive jet that he used during the campaign, Giscard discussed his foreign policy...
...IMAGE AS AN ALOOF ARISTOCRAT. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a patrician, and Kennedy was a multimillionaire. In the U.S., they represented an idea of progress, and both-Roosevelt especially-led a major reform movement, so one should not be taken in by labels that politicians give one another. Anyone who follows my campaign will see that I have no difficulty in obtaining popular support. In France, people know very well whether you are self-seeking or not, and as they have been observing me for some time, they know that this is not the case with...
...interested in hurling insults than in dealing with the issues. Socialist François Mitterrand, running with Communist backing, accused Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing of being the tool of "these princes, these dukes, these millionaires [who] have not had a new-idea in 15 years." The patrician Giscard in turn scourged his left-wing opponent for running "a violent and nasty campaign" and for trying to revive "the quarrels of the past...
...Generalissimo Chiang's tough and respected son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 63, who became Premier early in 1972; his ailing, octogenarian father retains the titular position of President. Once a Communist revolutionary who lived in Russia for twelve years, the younger Chiang has brought a fresh approach to the patrician politics of Taiwan. Responding to criticism that the government had become isolated from the people, he has adopted such egalitarian practices as stumping the island's small cities and farm villages and talking directly to the people. "If I stayed in my office year round, I would not stay...
...recklessly ignored Oscar Wilde's advice: "A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies." In the darkest days of the Hitler war, Bevan accused Churchill of "petrified adolescence." (The patrician Prime Minister, in the course of their 26-year feud, called Bevan a "squalid nuisance" and later "Minister of Disease.") In one of the worst gaffes of his career, Bevan denounced Conservatives-presumably, all 8,093,858 Britons who had voted the Tory ticket in 1945-as "lower than vermin." Nor were his own leaders spared Nye's spiced tongue. He thought of his Prime...