Word: statesman
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...poet and statesman as well as a politician and educator. He transformed China from a prostrate and humiliated country into a strong and self-sufficient nation. His revolutionary government altered the balance of power in Asia and the strategic thinking of the world. His teachings transformed the Chinese, long known to be loose as sand as a nation, into a unified, well-disciplined people devoted to building a strong country...
...been the candidates' personalities rather than any one issue. In 1960, John F. Kennedy's enumerated positions differed only slightly from Richard Nixon's. However, Kennedy's public image was that of a young, dynamic, progressive leader while Nixon's campaign persona more closely resembled that of an elder statesman. Similarly, in 1968 the "New Nixon" beat Hubert Humphrey, whose tenure as Lyndon Johnson's vice-president had so eroded his liberal credentials that many of his former supporters rejected him as a hypocrite or a fool...
...vice chairman of the Mississippi delegation. "If he goes out and builds up political lOUs," says Mounger, "he's going to be ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which he considers a job for a technician, not a statesman of his stature. Besides, he doubts Ford-Dole can win. Still, Connally will visit nearly 100 congressional districts in 72 days to stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon, who rose from the bone yard by crisscrossing...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER, 68, at last appears reconciled to the only logical role open to him: elder statesman. He will campaign vigorously for Ford in northeastern industrial states, and elsewhere if asked. Should Ford win, Rocky is a long-shot possibility for Secretary of State; but he no longer savors the political infighting that is part of any Cabinet job. He would prefer to be a part-time adviser on issues that still absorb him-for example, energy and international economic development. His personally funded Commission on Critical Choices is being phased out, but he could create some other forum...
Continuing the more independent and assertive diplomatic line laid down by his predecessor, Schmidt has not hesitated to mount the continental political stage. Intelligent, forceful, and pragmatic, Schmidt has already become the leading European statesman. Despite international mutterings of "Iron Chancellor" and the "Germany of old," Schmidt has not hesitated to use German economic muscle to safeguard German interests. He has warned the European Economic Community that Germany would no longer provide open ended funds to subsidize poorly conceived Community projects or stagnant, obsolete economic sectors of other countries. "Germany," according to Schmidt, "will no longer be the 'milch...