Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week to gladden the hardest-hearted politician; from coast to coast the trombones blasted out, the bunting rippled, the political speakers roared. Thousands of chickens made the supreme sacrifice, turned up as patties and croquettes on thousands of tables at Lincoln Day dinners and Democratic rallies. In Washington, at a wingding sponsored by the D.C. League of Republican Women Voters, Dick and Pat Nixon listened without a wince to a chorus of college girls who shrilly serenaded them with a new song, to the tune of Clementine...
Proper Piper. Righter has just about as much influence in Hollywood as a leading astrologer has in Thailand, where no top politician makes a move until the heavens are right. Dozens of stars will make no move (or movie) without calling Righter. Marlene Dietrich, whose respect for the master shot up when he correctly predicted that she would break her ankle in a studio accident, uses airplanes only when he gives the nod. Arlene Dahl, Robert Cummings, Rhonda Fleming, the Gabors, Hildegarde Neff, Adolphe Menjou, Tab Hunter, Susan Hayward, Red Skelton-all would rather pay Righter than the piper. Some...
...Kennedy came into focus on a blustery day last November when Jack met with his top lieutenants in his family's summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass. Present were Ted Sorenson, 31, son of a onetime Republican attorney general of Nebraska, Kennedy's chief policy adviser; Springfield Politician Larry O'Brien, 42, Senate Investigators Kenneth O'Donnell, 35, and Bob Wallace, 38, and Brothers Bob Kennedy, 34, and Ted, 27, his seasoned forward observers; Lou Harris, 38, a specialist in conducting political polls...
Historian Catton also joins most contemporary historians in discounting the tales of Grant's alcoholism, and fiercely defends Grant for his brusque handling of the volatile politician-soldier, Major General John McClernand. The book gives credit to McClernand for his conception of the Vicksburg enterprise. Catton even concedes that McClernand had "some reason" for believing that Grant and the other West Pointers on his staff had "ganged up" to get rid of him on the eve of Vicksburg's surrender, but he argues that Grant was right...
...boggle at collaborating with an ambitious dictator-to-be to overthrow constituted authority. That venture gave him an intoxicating taste of power, but he was overthrown and wandered through years of exile, unsure whether he would ever get a second chance. Above all, he is a master politician who has learned about his country and its people by tramping dusty back-lands roads and sleeping in peasant huts. He organized peasants, industrial workers, students, businessmen and professional men into a leftist movement called Actión Democrática (A.D.), the country's major political party...