Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canton, he began preparing for his eventual return to Viet Nam. Nationalism, Ho saw, was the foundation on which an independent Viet Nam could be built. To this end, he began organizing young Vietnamese nationalists exiled in China, slowly building the organization that was to become his apparatus of power. In the process, he proved that he could be utterly cruel...
...considerably. Rademaker, 64, is a rigid right-winger who had helped lead the military's 1964 coup against left-leaning President Joāo Goulart, but has done little political maneuvering since. Technically, he is the senior man in the group, but he ranks an easy third in power and ambition. Souza, 63, is a hard-core rightist who is not likely to play a major political role. Lyra Tavares, 63, is the strongest, has the best political sense and is the most widely admired of the three. He came up through the engineers corps -traditionally the army...
Shuck the Braid. The triumvirate was careful to maintain a low political profile. Taking power, they shucked their gold braid in favor of business suits. Foreign Minister Magalhaes Pinto announced that they were governing "with the approval of the President," and added that "this is not a junta...
Nixon's problem, Barber says, is a failure to communicate; it stems from "a very strong drive for personal power-especially independent power-which pushes him away from reliance on any one else." In council, Nixon listens attentively and then "retires to his chambers, where he may spend hours in complete solitude" before he "emerges and pronounces the verdict." It is, says Barber, "the lonely seclusion adopted consciously as a way of deciding that stands out in Nixon's personal-relations style." This style has already produced a number of "presidential stumbles," among them the rejection of John...
...Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about it and, lashing out, takes an exaggerated policy stand. It is, says Barber, the stuff of "tragic drama: the danger is that he might refuse to revise his course of action in the light of consequent events...