Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Watergate loomed over the Nixon Administration, Rumsfeld engineered an appointment as Ambassador to NATO, as far away as possible from the gathering storm. "He was a cool and careful planner," noted Speech writer Robert Hartmann, who tussled with him for influence at the Ford White House. "As a politician, he recognized and respected fate; as a wrestler, he was ever alert for an opening to take fate by the forelock...
Perhaps. But at odds with his colleagues, Grandmaison, a volatile New Hampshire-bred politician, had failed to construct an overall national organization even close to that of Glenn's main competitor, Walter Mondale. A lack of focus pervaded the campaign effort virtually from the moment Glenn announced for the presidency in April, according to Grandmaison's critics, who certainly included White. In fact, White began putting together a reshuffled team long before Grandmaison was actually sacked. He hired a political consultant, Geoffrey Hockman, his former Ohio State roommate, to undertake a three-week study of the campaign...
...introduced in every session of Congress since the charismatic minister was assassinated in 1968, and just as regularly sidetracked. Opponents questioned whether King or anyone else should be granted an honor never conferred on Lincoln or Jefferson. But blacks have been registering to vote in numbers that hardly any politician can continue to ignore, and the holiday had become an issue of enormous symbolic significance. In August the House voted for the idea...
...nonendorsement endorsement, was designed to "provoke intrigue," explains Mansfield Marketing Director Richard Lewis. The brewery was careful, however, not to provoke the White House, which voiced no objections because the picture was in the public domain. But Lewis piously protests he would never take similar advantage of a British politician. The U.S. Chief Executive was chosen, he says, because "we don't think a picture of President Reagan in Nottinghamshire is going to affect the outcome of the next presidential election." Hmm. Even now the wheels may be turning at some U.S. brewery. "She may have recaptured the Falklands...
...Night (1962), Richardson found his ideal role: as the haughty burgher whose tragic flaw lies in realizing too late that he is not quite a tragic figure. Though he never played Lear, the Shakespearean role that might have been written for him, Richardson found that doddering majesty as the politician in Storey's Early Days (1980). Wily but too innocent, flirting with senility, raging at the dying sun of empire, Sir Ralph painted an indelible image of a civilization's decline...