Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Baptist revival meeting. The Republican Party's passing themselves off as the party with high moral Christian standards is getting sickening. Mr. Nixon, Mr. Rockefeller and Dr. Judd, to name a few, with their Protestant backgrounds, are just as fast at mud-slinging as the next politician...
...legislature's minority leader, the first woman ever to hold the post, and the mother superior of Maine's thriving Democratic Party. Last spring, when Maine held its state primary, Senator Muskie and the other leading Democrats had their answer to Maggie Smith: as a seasoned politician and a proven vote getter, Lucia Cormier was a leading candidate for the Senate nom ination; as a woman, she was a natural. No matter which of the ladies from Maine gets the toga, women permeate U.S. politics so thoroughly as to indicate that they have only begun to fight...
Though many Germans are deeply conscious of war guilt (see below) and few are foolish enough to think reunification an immediate possibility, no German politician is prepared to admit that it is not a just and necessary goal. But in the hue and cry against Jaspers, no one outdid the Socialists, who angrily accused him of suffering from a "mental short circuit." Brandt's obvious campaign plan on the reunification issue: to accuse Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats of not sincerely desiring reunification and of doing too little to keep the hope of it alive in East German...
...does give him the right to nominate the Premier, subject to confirmation by the Assembly's lower house. With more than 2,000,000 unemployed and an empty treasury, South Korea is in a bad way, and President Yun would be well advised, remarked one cynical Seoul politician last week, "to nominate his worst political enemy" for Premier...
...defend this thesis. Martin digs into history, suggests that "strong" Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt were all only nominal Christians. Even Lincoln, says Martin, was a practical politician who "drew a line of separation between his personal ethics and the ethics of responsibility...