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...will probably play both warrior and drunk. In fact, he is a quiet, ambitious realist. "I want to cram everything into my life. I think it goes back to what I started with. I was nothing as a person and I had nothing. What could I be by the time I was 70? I thought, I am going to live. I don't want anything left at the end that I wanted to do. I want the marvelous knowledge that when I am finished, I have done everything...
...preacher of patience," he warns; "I'm highly impatient myself." But then comes the phrase that puts Leonard's impatience in his role in the Bok administration in context: "On the other hand, I'm also a realist...
...thousands of people in the West, Willy Brandt has been one of the truly heroic figures of the postwar world. He is still remembered by many as the fighting mayor of West Berlin. More important, though, he was a statesman-realist who was determined to confront and conquer Germany's shameful past, a Europe-minded visionary who preached unity for the Continent, and the Nobel Peace-prizewinning architect of Ostpolitik. Konrad Adenauer cemented West Germany's ties with the West, and Ludwig Erhard fashioned the economic miracle that has made the Deutsche Mark the world's most...
Faltering Miracle. Few observers anywhere expect dramatic changes in French foreign policy, even if a non-Gaullist is elected. (French domestic policy is another matter entirely, especially if a leftist candidate wins.) Despite the resurgence of strident Gaullist rhetoric in recent months, Georges Pompidou was first and foremost a realist. At home the tragedy of his presidency was that he had to work almost in stealth on developing the "modern" France that he envisioned, lest he upset the orthodox Gaullist constituency to which he was chained. It was a project that he could not hope to finish. Even...
Presidential Counsellor Anne Armstrong met with the President to tell him of worry about the fall elections. Her report: Nixon was "on top of his job." He had the facts, and "he is a very clear-thinking realist." But even her enthusiastic portrayal of the President blurred into generalities. "He thinks we will be out from under the energy crisis, the economy will be on the upturn...