Word: politicians
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FORMER SPEAKER of the Massachussets House of Representatives Thomas McGee did an odd thing last week. He voted against a proposal which limits the freedom of the press in the Statehouse, and also closes the political process to the public. Odd because McGee is a politician known for his closed door policies and backroom style of politics before his ouster from the speakership by current House Speaker George Keverian...
...necessarily a crushing setback for the global economy, nor does it indicate a sudden decline in Reagan's persuasive powers. Mitterrand probably was at least partly playing to the potent French farm vote in preparation for parliamentary elections next year, and it would be useless for any non-French politician to try to talk him out of that. All the same, the impasse raises a disquieting question about economic summits. One of the original reasons for holding the meetings was supposed to be that the problems of coordinating an interdependent global economy were too important to be left to technicians...
...America, it is the people who eat the politicians for supper. Public vanishing is a dramatic spectacle usually because it has to do with power and its loss. If a politician gives a speech and there is no one there to hear it, has he made a sound? Ask Harold Stassen. He knows something about the riddle of the tree falling in the empty auditorium...
...only Republican at the event, Clark Abt, a local Cambridge politician, who said he was unsure if he would actually run, was also the only speaker to oppose a bilateral, comprehensive, verifiable nuclear freeze...
...plain Americanness, Reagan is more like Ford or Truman or Eisenhower. But he is a better politician than Ford or Truman, and has had more of an idea of what he wanted to do as President than Ike did. Reagan neatly stood on its head a cherished assumption of most students of the presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar...