Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideological splits inside the Labor Party run deep, and Foot must first reconcile the mostly moderate M.P.s with the increasingly strident radicals gaining strength at the grass roots. That is a monumental task for a politician of great charm but less vigor, of coruscating rhetoric but lamentable lack of administrative skill. Even Foot's appearance arouses more affectionate regard than confidence in a strong leader. A frail figure at 67, with a flowing white mane and a slight limp, he exudes a benign vagueness in conversation. It did not help his image on his first day as leader when...
...Reagan, and implied that if Bush did not take a consistently conservative stand, he could be replaced--was called to defend this apparent threat on the same ABC symposium. Weyrich said that "our movement is wedded to principles...to the extent that we do not agree with a politician, we will oppose him." He continued with a victory statement, "People who believe with these straightforward principles have been elected. I was inviting him [George Bush] to go with the tide. If he doesn't someone will stand up and oppose...
...future, the defeat of Jimmy Carter, for all its landslide proportions, was not necessarily a disaster. Perversely, four years of Ronald Reagan may be what the Democrats need to recover the internal discipline and philosophical coherence-the party's "soul," as an old time New York politician puts it-that have been bleeding away since the late 1960s...
...White House in 1976 as a sweet-psalming loner circuit riding outside the party structures. As President, owing little or nothing to the party, he practiced a cool neglect of it. His motivations were rooted in his own interests, not the party's: a perfect '70s politician. He did not encourage new Democratic talent or ideas; he neglected both the mechanism and the vision of the party, its sheer reason for being. Thus Carter's defeat is less traumatic to the Democrats than it might have been; it is like the end of a loveless marriage...
...myself in that role," he insisted, though he has already rehearsed it in The Candidate (1972). But he did add, "I have a right to speak out on the issues. Being an actor isn't synonymous with giving up citizenship papers." Beatty too is already sounding like a politician. His response to queries about a possible candidacy: "No comment...