Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of President Kennedy's critics have made the charge that he withheld announcement of the Cuban blockade until it was politically advantageous. There can be no doubt that Kennedy is a master politician, but to suggest that he would gamble with the security of this country to further selfish political ends is not only asinine but naive as well...
...American people be content with having punched both Castro and Khrushchev in the nose and got away with it, and direct Politician Kennedy to devote our considerable might to the promotion of peace rather than deliberate aggression and war provocation...
Greenwald, who strongly supported Kennedy during the campaign, emphasized his confidence in Teddy's political abilities. He stressed Massachusetts' need for "hardboiled, tough political leadership," and described Teddy as "a tough politician." Much of Teddy's strength will lie in his influence with professional politicians, and his popularity, Grenewald said...
...third Republican challenger is Fred H. Lindstrom, the son of a well-known Cambridge politician. William Homans completes the Democratic slate...
...will not lack political skill. In 1954, when he was his party's chief fund raiser, he was accused of taking $150,000 in bribes from industrialists to ease antitrust laws. Replied Sato with icy aplomb: "My job was to raise party funds; I did nothing that any politician who knew his job would not have done." Like his brother, Politician Sato counts himself a firm friend of the West. Though trade-hungry Japan hopes ultimately to do some business with Red China, for the time being it has "no intention of going against free world current in relations...