Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back-slapping drummer. He took every opportunity to clown for photographers, converse with reporters and mix with folks, chatting and shaking hands. There were moments when the President of the U.S. almost found himself shunted to the sidelines, and on one occasion Nixon observed: "He's the best politician in the room...
Sandbagged. Connally denied press reports that he was quitting because he had not been given a staff or had not been consulted enough. From most accounts, however, he had been unhappy in his job. At the outset, he was sandbagged by a politician even more cunning than himself. He had turned down Nixon's offer of the Defense Department or a top job on the White House staff. He preferred to serve as a low-keyed, part-time adviser so that he could come and go as he pleased...
...plans in advance, or if not that, certainly about what had happened immediately after the Nixon committee was linked to the arrested men at the Watergate, and that Mitchell resigned. Yet Mitchell has too high a regard for the President to admit this, if true, and in this experienced politician's judgment, Haldeman is too tough and loyal to change his testimony. Ehrlichman, in this view, is the weakest of the trio...
Many have already carried banners of protest in Paris, as well as in London, Tokyo, The Hague, Sydney, Wellington, Lima and Istanbul. Last week Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the influential French politician and publisher, flew off to organize a demonstration in Tahiti. On his arrival, he lauded those willing to risk their lives in the explosion zone-particularly Jacques de Bollardière, 65, a wartime military hero who had resigned as a general in 1961 over the mistreatment of Algerian captives. The former general, said Servan-Schreiber, "is saving the honor of the French army." The American couple...
Beneath the bonhomie, say officials who have sat in on discussions with him, he is a very cautious politician. Though much more surefooted now than in his earlier years at the top, he is still not totally at ease in foreign affairs and relies heavily on Gromyko...