Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sing Along with U Thant. In the capital, where a woman of such exalted station rarely escapes the scratch of a well-aimed shiv, Lady Bird has come off remarkably unscathed. Some people wonder if she is a sort of self-created Galatea, playing the role of a politician's perfect wife, the possessor of a flawless mediocrity that generates warm admiration but no scorching envy. Brother Tony says that "Lady Bird has been in public life and in the public eye for so long that she has learned to be circumspect, even when...
...phrase the ballot in a certain way, known only to the candidate and himself. When the ballot is read aloud, it thus reveals the Deputy's identity. In this typically Lebanese manner, it is possible to maintain the convention of a secret vote and still ensure that a politician who has made a deal will actually deliver...
...view of this, I cannot see how a nonresident politician of California or New York can just announce that he will run for high office in another state and have the temerity to think that the public will stand still for this blatant effrontery...
...Originally, I wanted to be a politician," the cardinal says. "I used to make money speaking for politicians from the back of wagons. I spoke for Jim Curley. I spoke for the suffragettes and the anti-suffragettes-anyone who would pay me. This was all outdoors-that's how I developed this present style of talking indoors. Then the priest said, 'If you do any more speaking for politicians or any other cause, I'm never going to give you a letter to the seminary...
...groups of all kinds, and among rural people. They say Goldwater is a man of courage, of integrity, of character-those are the words they're using at the popular level. They say he says what he means and talks straight. They say he's not a politician...