Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic version: Californians are losing an exhilarating, compassionate leader, a pioneer in appointing women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians to help govern the nation's most populous state. They are getting, instead, a humdrum politician, one determined to protect the rich and turn back the clock on progress in civil rights and the environment...
...grandson of three-time Massachusetts governor Sam McCall, Tom McCall was a talented politician whose liberal leanings made him popular among Democratic as well as Republican voters. He was often mentioned in the mid-'70s as a potential Presidential candidate...
This situation cannot change until the Mexican economy substantially improves. The man who must make that happen is a paradox: a politician who has never before held elective office. Virtually all of Miguel de la Madrid's adult life has been spent within the Mexican bureaucracy, usually in financial or planning positions. He is a lawyer-technocrat who is known as a pragmatic and quiet but firm negotiator rather than an inspired political leader for difficult times. De la Madrid's reputation is based on his mastery of the details of economic planning, his simplicity of style...
...down on corruption is designed to avoid the social explosion that might loom as living standards drop further. De la Madrid's aim is to show that belt-tightening will affect the rich as well as the poor. "What's fair is fair," explains a P.R.I, 'politician. "We cannot have fat-cat officials taking advantage of these conditions to feather their own nests." De la Madrid has also made clear that he will do as much as possible to protect government programs that aid the peasantry, the poorest element of Mexican society...
...contribute to a certain blurring of the national interest and the personal interest. F.D.R. doubtless convinced himself in 1940 that it was for the good of the nation and the world that he should be the first three-term President. It would be refreshing some time to hear a politician admit he wanted to be President simply because it is the top job in his business. (The motivation of J.F.K., Nixon, Carter.) But it is not an auspicious basis for a presidency. It suggests a lack of idealism and of a coherent political philosophy. Reagan and L.B.J., whatever their shortcomings...