Word: statecraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thai Politician-Publisher Kukrit Pramoj 13 years ago took a respite from statecraft and journalism for a brief fling at the movies. In the film version of The Ugly American, Kukrit got surprisingly good reviews for his portrayal of the democratic Prime Minister of a mythical Southeast Asia nation called Sarkhan. The movie Prime Minister was besieged and almost overthrown by Communists, largely because of a meddling U.S. ambassador (played by Marlon Brando...
Moynihan sees nothing inconsistent between such ideological attacks on the Soviets and the policy of detente, which he considers an act of statecraft" by , Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger "that has not had its equal in our time." The trouble, he believes, is that most Americans fail to understand detente because it involves an inconsistency: the conflict between a "technological imperative" that demands cooperation between the two superpowers to prevent nuclear war, and an "ideological imperative" that demands competition. Detente may well mean more rather than less ideological conflict. But living with such contradictions, he argues breezily...
Between the Nixon resignation and the Cyprus crisis, Henry Kissinger stood in his huge domain on the seventh floor at the State Department and actually let his mind wander from statecraft. "What do you think of this rug?" he asked a visitor, pointing at a handsome Oriental that had been laid over the broad and lifeless expanse of beige G.I. carpeting. "Nancy thought I needed something to break things up. It's a little too busy...
...Chinese, this Manchu monarch was lawgiver, supreme judge, jury, protector and executioner, and one of the busiest executives in history. He supervised a vast civil service meritocracy laid down on Confucian principles that recognized society as a hierarchy of intelligence over ignorance. Like Confucius, K'ang-hsi viewed statecraft as applied knowledge in the service of the governed, and he worried about his people before they worried about themselves...
...Henry Kissinger made at his extraordinary news conference in Salzburg that no journalist will dispute. In the 5½ years that he has been shaping U.S. foreign policy, the Secretary of State has never lacked a large and enthusiastic following in the press and public. They have applauded his statecraft spectaculars, been entertained when he stepped out with starlets, and generally turned to him for relief from the sullenness and secrecy that have characterized much of the rest of the Nixon Administration...