Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian. And I'm a politician. I disagree with those who think the two can't mix. I think they have...
Says MacPherson: "It's not just the demands, the constant travel, the constituents. It's the inner core of the politician to begin with. The kind of person who picks politics for a career is one who is not comfortable with one-on-one relationships. He prefers, all too often, the roar of the crowd." Among the results of such pressures: Joy Baker, after living most of her life for two Senators−father, Everett Dirksen and husband, Howard Baker−says sadly, "Politics has nullified my personality." Sharon Percy Rockefeller reports that her three-year...
...sure of speedy confirmation is another Ford nominee: George Bush, chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, named to succeed William Colby as director of the CIA. A former Texas Congressman (two terms), Ambassador to the U.N. and chairman of the Republican National Committee, Bush is a canny politician and strong party loyalist. Democratic Senator Frank Church, who heads the committee that has been digging into CIA violations of its charter and the law, argues that the agency needs an independent, tough-minded outsider who is not a politician to straighten it out. Asked Church: "If CIA assessments should...
...Marcos, 46, who was elected Miss Manila in 1953, was appointed last week general manager of Manila, which was enlarged by the incorporation of its suburban towns. As ruler of the nation's wealthiest and most populous (5.5 million) area, Mrs. Marcos is now the second most influential politician in the Philippines after her husband...
...warehouse is panelled with books, books, and more books! There are forty feet of Welch's famous tome The Politician, which accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a "conscious and willing agent of the Communist Conspiracy." There are fifty feet of the distilled essence of conspiracy, None Dare Call It Conspiracy! Another whole side of the warehouse is devoted to How We Lost...-- books on Poland, China, Korea, Vietnam, East Europe, etc. Then there are stacks of The Blue Book, Welch's original exposition of the Birch code, which describes democracy as "merely a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery...