Word: realistes
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...said. The White House waiters hustled in the scrambled and poached eggs, the rashers of bacon and sausage. Nixon began to talk congressional politics, calling on G.O.P. National Chairman George Bush to run down the coming elections. In the morning light Nixon was a realist. His trouble was the Republican trouble right now. He could understand the candidates staying clear of him. That was O.K. But they had better be careful. "If they jump on me too hard, the hard core [G.O.P.] may retaliate," he said. It was mellow, civilized and sensible talk, yet incomplete. There was no mention...
When I was in high school, people sometimes called me an idealist. I would answer that the real idealists were those who believed that the world could continue to groan onward without completely falling apart, that I was actually a realist because I saw change as imperative. I also answered by using an old worn-out quote from Albert Camus--"Perhaps we cannot feed all the starving children in the world. But we can surely feed some of them. If you will not help us do this, who will help us do this?" And for all the quote's disarming...
Meeting with Republican Congressmen at the White House last week, the President of the U.S. made a painful confession. As a "political realist." Richard Nixon acknowledged, "I might be a liability and not necessarily an asset in the [1974] election...
Also, he is widely respected as a realist who can, as an admirer says, "explain the Arab approach in ways that outsiders can understand...
...First. Even though his political influence had waned, Ben-Gurion was mourned all over Israel. He was the realist and visionary who had dreamed of and worked for a Jewish state through half a century of Turkish, British and international rule in Palestine. He had suggested the name for the new country. He had carried out hard or unpopular decisions in the state's early days and inevitably left on Israel the strength of his own personality...