Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House, but it's especially so for Jimmy Carter, coming in as the outsider, the loner, not conversant with the salons of power, coming in and running against everybody. Carter, too, seems unable to use politics for what it should be used for. The art of the politician, the public educator, whatever we call leadership, I think it's that--I hate the word "leadership," because it's a catch-all for everything. But let's go on with "public educator": to build, to guide, direct, to channel, to chart the course. You can argue about the direction...
Johnson: There are two things. There's an impression one night when I asked him about the political process. I said, "The people complain you're not a good enough politician, and they want you to do well, Mr. President," and he said, "I can't imagine sitting around and doing things the way Lyndon Johnson and Ev Dirksen used to do, trading judgeships." For me at least, that was quite revealing: it settled the way he really felt, and this perception of the process as something he wouldn't do. That's a problem--not that you have...
...could prevent nuclear war. He seemed to lose sight of the fact that a successful political operation calls for organization and money." Says former Press Secretary Charlotte Perry: "He drew crowds, but in the same way that Steve Martin draws crowds, by being outrageous, a wild and crazy politician. They came to see Doonesbury; it's Doonesbury they...
...million voters and have increased Republican primary voting in the South. It will assign 70,000 clergy to an even bigger registration blitz in July. Affiliates are at work in 43 states. The Majority is so issues-oriented, Falwell insists that if he had to choose between a Christian politician who did not agree with his views and a nonbeliever who did, "I'd vote for the nonbeliever every time...
...generally described by members of the community as a quiet or private person. While some, including one high University official, complain that he is a plastic politician--an impression easily etched as one watches Bok walk, through the Faculty Club and say "Nice to see you" to the people in the hall-others say he is simply shy. "When Derek and Sissela walk into a party," says one friend, "you've got to ply them away from the people they know." Bok is not sensitive about his private affairs, says Lloyd E. Weinreb, a professor of Law and close friend...