Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer, Charles de Gaulle has the gift of clarity, as a politician he knows the uses of ambiguity, and as a statesman he has shown remarkable consistency. From nearly 30 years of writings and remarks come these affirmations of his aspirations and ambitions...
...completely a part of the present-day life of America that it was often hard to realize that he had been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant. Another paradox: this professional Yankee was born in San Francisco, the son of a transplanted New England editor-politician. But his father died when Frost was eleven, and his mother took him back to what was to become his native soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm, working the rocky soil and scratching...
...days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles as Administration spokesman and party leader. Those roles were not inherent in the office of Vice President and left no permanent impress upon it. Politician Kennedy has delegated no such roles to Politician Johnson...
...hard-boiled debater and effective TV performer, but is regarded by many colleagues as a lightweight. To prepare for the chancellorship, he has been cramming with some of Oxford's brightest young dons, who privately rate him "B or B-plus." He is an engaging, hard-working politician, and many of Brown's supporters fear that he may split the right-wing vote. In a deadlock, he could even emerge as Labor's leader...
...most embarrassing thing that can happen to a politician is, of course, to get beaten in an election. The next most embarrassing thing is to make a bargain and not be able to keep it-which is precisely what happened last week to House Speaker John McCormack...