Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the República takeover. But there are already signs of a backlash against the Communists in the heavily Catholic north, where gun battles between conservative and left-wing elements have been reported. In addition, troops were called into one village to restore order after a left-wing politician shot his way out of a mob armed with shotguns, whips and hoes...
There is one White House aide who explains the current Ford surge by suggesting that the President is a bad politician in a moment in history when politics is detested, and thus Ford is viewed as good...
...says shrewd Barber Conable, an upstate New York Congressman: "He is a good politician. The realities of power are still against him, but he has immense personal good will up here. He knows the House." When Ford was given a list of wavering members on the strip-mining-veto vote, he glanced over the dozen names. "That one, that one and that one are a waste of time," he said almost instinctively. The three were scratched, and Ford began phoning the others in his successful effort to avoid an override...
...Premier is a waffling dove. The general's charisma will also blunt the appeal of Rabin critics like former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Since Sharon becomes a civil servant who by law cannot openly criticize the government, Rabin has also neatly stilled the voice of a maverick politician who once called him both "naive" and "childish" for indicating willingness to trade Abu Rudeis and the Sinai passes for a peace agreement with Sadat...
...Fact of Fifty remains. There is still no politician of viable stature in our national life who is not one of us, products of the Good War generation. There are some who would say that Ted Kennedy was not in the war and not of the Class of '50 kind, but I think the very intense and personal involvement of all his family in the war and aftermath place him in the category of the last of the generation's by products...