Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradoxical enormity, remains Reagan's hardest cross to bear), are safest for the Democrats. After all, as much of FDR's heritage has been made untouchable as has been rejected; people cried "socialism" and "get government off our backs" when Social Security was first suggested, but no American politician would ever advocate an end to the program today. If the Democrats are determined to fight other battles, they should follow the lead of Mo Udall and others on the tax cut vote and make them honorable duels. Instead of trying to win on issues like the tax cut, when...
...Moses' death symbolizes another kind of "fall," not only in New York, but in all of America. Robert Moses was an "expert:" he always had the charts and the numbers to prove that his plan was the best--indeed, the only--way to proceed. Moses viewed the word "politician" as an epithet, bespeaking smoke-filled rooms and electoral machines and corruption. "In forty years of public life," he once thundered at a trial of a borough president. "I have never made a deal." For years the description of "above politics" absolved Moses, in the eyes of the public, from...
...military uniform, standing ramrod-straight at the lectern, he read out a grim check list of Poland's woes: increasing consumer shortages, falling production, a crushing foreign debt, renewed strike threats. Alluding to possible unrest, and citing the party's "trust in the army," the general turned politician implied a willingness to suppress future disorders with military force...
...regret is that it was always so difficult to let him know the great depth of my affection for him." Of his wife Mamie and his son John he said almost nothing. The diaries, and the histories that are now emerging, are be ginning to reveal Eisenhower, the adept politician. The man behind the smile remains an enigma still...
...automobile tire and sees a car careen through a bridge railing and into the water below. The car contains a presidential hopeful and his lady of the evening, Sally (Nancy Allen). Jack dives in and saves her, but is later warned by police and friends of the deceased politician to forget that she existed. The plot thickens-curdles, really-with hints of Chappaquiddick and Nixonian plumbers, with genuflections to Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, with narrative implausibilities and internal contradictions and enough red herrings to stock a Leningrad fish market...