Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politician in the traditional sense, yet he is a very good politician," says Robert Strauss, his campaign manager. "He doesn't like to sit around and swap political stories. It's not good relaxation for him. He's not a 'one-of-the-boys' kind. He'd rather have good music on, some of it classical and some of it country-and-western...
...York Times Columnist James Reston called Carter's campaign "vicious and personal," and added that "even if he wins, it will be difficult for him to regain the support he needs to govern." Said an editorial in the Washington Post: "Jimmy Carter is campaigning like a politician gone haywire . . . Where is the President?" Commented the Boston Globe: "The President seems bent on discarding his last ace, his reputation as a decent and compassionate...
...career ebbed. More than that of any other major politician on the national scene, Reagan's present has been shaped by his private past: he bases his attitudes toward public policy on successes and disappointments experienced long before he began campaigning for public office, which he did not do until he was 55, a year younger than Jimmy Carter...
Industrialist Justin Dart, one of the most conservative members of Reagan's California coterie, seems dead right when he says, "No politician on the face of the earth can function without some compromises. But Ronald Reagan makes fewer than the others. The only compromises he will make as President are those that are forced on him." And Stuart Spencer, a top strategist on Reagan...
...wonder. The alliance dropped from 48.6% of the popular vote to 44.5%, and lost 17 seats in the Bundestag. Though Conservative Challenger Franz Joseph Strauss insisted that he might try again in the future, many party regulars were convinced that they had probably seen the 65-year-old Bavarian politician's last hurrah as a candidate for Chancellor. "Yes, I made mistakes," Strauss acknowledged last week. "There is only one German political figure who thinks he never made a mistake: Helmut Schmidt...