Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They actually flushed out a politician who refused a bribe. He deserves sanctuary on the endangered-species list...
...sirens screeched, bells clanged and lights flashed from a firehouse across the street; a brass band belted out lusty, if strangely matched, renditions of God Bless America and Ease on Down the Road. Reagan, visibly buoyed, even got off some unrehearsed one-liners. When a local politician proudly showed him the town's 90-year-old heavy polished-oak ballot box, Reagan cracked, "I'd like to stuff that ballot...
...press protects those whose leaks jeopardize due process of law or disclose security information. The Times, in listing the motives of leakers, says that some fear that superiors may override their findings, some long for personal credit, others with a grudge may want to punish a politician "with publicity even if an indictment is not warranted." For the sake of a good story, the press sometimes commits its own honor to shielding questionable collaborators. At least, the press should do a better job of alerting readers to the advantage someone, or some group, gains by a particular leak. Harold Macmillan...
...moderation and decency at a time when the centrifugal forces of revolution threatened to tear the nation apart.... In Congress and in the state, he was 'the centre of union' around which a majority always seemed able to coalesce.... He deserves to be enshrined as America's first modern politician. He could win a following with rum on the Common, or jobs at the wharf.... He seems really to have cared about the people he served...
...control. "Carter's incredible competitive streak nowhere appears in any of the accounts of his White House days," the authors write. This about the man who said he would whip his opponent's ass. And "crisis thinking," the authors tell us, "runs counter to Carter's instincts." A terrific politician, perhaps--but a dismal leader...