Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon lawyer and politician resisted all pleas from family members and friends to flee. He was sure that he and others like him would survive. He explained: "I have been vanquished and will no doubt be subjected to the victor. I have no illusions. But I frankly believe that any Communist rule will be a different one if many of us stay. They will have to consider our case or kill us all, which would produce a different reaction among the people than they might like...
...military commander in chief since March, is considerably more conservative than the young officers who placed him in power, he is expected to support their economic and social programs, which include some land reform, a limited nationalization of industry and an eventual return to civilian government. As one Honduran politician put it wryly: "I trust Melgar because he will not be able to rule the country. It will be ruled by the armed forces committee...
Gerry Ford is a grass roots politician, blessed with a zest for boring speeches and stupid occasions that would make a Brooklyn borough president proud. But Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...
...summoned by Nixon to restore order to the White House at the height of Watergate, he was not so much as brushed by the scandal. Unlike almost everyone else who got close to Nixon in his last year in office, Laird emerged with his reputation totally intact. A practical politician not given to selfdelusion, he referred to the Paris peace accords as an "American disengagement" rather than "peace with honor." Laird, the architect of Vietnamization and accelerated troop withdrawal, often differed with Kissinger on his handling of Viet...
...first time in history a rat has swam toward a sinking ship." The indictment merely confirmed what Connally's enemies had long suspected, and few doubted he would be convicted. Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling $10,000, one politician replied "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe." The white knights of the Special Prosecutor's Office had toppled one Nixon crony after another, and Connally looked like merely another transgressor of the public trust...