Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes through on television is extremely important in measuring that politician's success," said Marvin Kalb, former chief diplomatic correspondent at CBS and NBC News and current director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Policy at the Kennedy School...
...Manley was quick to recognize that the political climate had changed radically overnight. Said he, after rushing to Kingston last week: "All politics are being put aside. There is not time to deal in partisan issues in this emergency." In the dispiriting climate of post-Gilbert Jamaica, a successful politician may find that victory has a bitter taste...
What was startling about the grievances was that they were broadcast on nationwide television for successive nights, accompanied by Gorbachev's ridicule of local Communist Party officials. "What have you been doing about the issues?" Gorbachev asked the local brass during one meeting. "We have been fighting," replied one politician. Retorted Gorbachev: "What kind of battle is it when you have no casualties and you have lost the battle completely...
After all, Dukakis came to the Kennedy School after his shocking defeat in the 1978 gubernatorial race and re-emerged four years later as an invigorated and victorious politician. And when he returned to the State House he brought with him so many Kennedy School colleagues that Allison was forced to personally negotiate a hiring freeze with the governor...
There is something even more pernicious about family time in American politics, however, than mere hypocrisy and illogic. The obsession with the politician and his family is antidemocratic. It promotes the idea of dynastic politics. Bush arranged for his son to cast the vote that officially gave him the Republican nomination. Ted Kennedy was introduced by his nephew. And Jesse Jackson, who always operates on a grander scale, arranged to have himself introduced by all five of his children. Jesse Jackson Jr. is a member of the Democratic National Committee. That is no worse than Maureen Reagan being co- chair...