Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician with an eye on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue had better keep the other eye cocked toward California, with its late (June 7), high-stakes (81 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, 70 to the Republican) presidential primaries and its 32 electoral votes. To no one is California more crucial than to Native Son Richard Nixon; if he cannot count on his home state, he will have a rough path to walk toward the White House. Just four months ago the Mervin Field poll, most widely circulated in the state, showed Nixon not only running well behind Massachusetts' John Kennedy...
...press and TV, Khrushchev turned to Stevenson. "Can I repeat that little conversation?" he asked. "It won't reveal any secret?" Replied Adlai, with a big grin: "You are at liberty to reveal my deepest secret." Said Khrushchev: "Mr. Stevenson said that he was a politician in retirement. But in politics it often happens that a person retires today and tomorrow he may be in the first rank. It all depends on the people." Added Stevenson: "It depends on how many times you can retire...
...Harold E. Clancy and James E. Wechsler--"Nixon as President--Statesman or Politician...
...business executives, and in public question-and-answer debates with U.S. businessmen and newsmen before TV crowds of millions. And as the trip piled climax upon climax, it was Khrushchev himself-with his peasant's roughhewn politeness and witty proverbs and knack of making others laugh; with his politician's adeptness at choosing which questions to answer, dodge or bull through; with his dictator's unpredictable pace changes from toothy grins to sudden shouts; with his Marxist's igth century-model sureness that capitalism, like feudalism, was doomed by a simple process of history...
...begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace was Samuel Adams, cousin of John, a dumpy, inquisitive politician who had left his job as Boston tax collector when his accounts were found ?8,000 in arrears. Unlike most of the other colonial leaders, he wanted not merely rectification of parliamentary wrongs but independence...