Word: pols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon. Curiously, the Times profile of Carter as a man jealously clinging to his power, occasionally alone, resisting contradiction and eschewing political maneuver, is not at odds with part of the image he has built up during his public life. Carter has always been more technocrat than pol, a man who stayed out of back rooms, who said no to special interests, who reached a point when he did not want to argue longer. During the campaign these traits were billed as desirable contrasts to the old-boy Washington clubhouse atmosphere. But back then he never...
...integrity intact. A State House veteran who works on McGee's staff said of Frank, "Barney understands the rules of the game and the rules of procedure. Barney will not lead the charge of the Light Brigade. There are some Kamikaze liberals who will. Barney is a good practical pol...
...diarists are stuck with stupid appellatives--Clare Smith, a 17 year old high school student from Ohio, becomes The Youngest Delegate; Fritz Efaw, an ex-MIT student now living abroad, becomes The Draft Dodger Delegate; Dick Celeste, Ohio's lieutenant-governor on the way up, becomes The Young Pol. And friends, one may be assured that after over 200 pages and the deaths of a lot of trees, they lead as boring a life as even...
There last week was Mike Disalle, the former Democratic Governor of Ohio, Truman's price stabilizer, Kennedy pol and Johnson friend, looking as if he had not moved from his cushion in Sans Souci. He savored both the veal kidneys and the fact that his party would be moving back into the nearby White House...
Thomas Philip ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., who turned 64 last week, is the quintessential Boston Irish pol. Grandson of an immigrant bricklayer, he was a campaign worker for Alfred E. Smith at 15 and a candidate for the Cambridge city council at 22. He wound up 150 votes behind in the only election he has ever lost. A year later he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and was 36 when he became the first Democratic speaker of the house...