Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed the ultra-conservative elements to exert influence disproportionate to their support among the electorate. Former president Gerald R. Ford was introduced by a film whose soundtrack featured the melancholy ode "What I Did for Love." In his speech, he insisted he was not an elder statesman; he pledged that he would be active in campaigning to defeat Carter while failing to mention whether he would try to move the party back to a more responsible, centrist position...
Neither Schmidt nor his nervous allies had cause to worry about the summit's outcome. After two days of intense and often brutally frank discussion with Brezhnev and his top aides, the Chancellor returned home with his reputation as a statesman intact, and with a promise of progress on arms-reduction talks. The Soviets, reported Schmidt, had abandoned two key preconditions for entering into negotiations with the U.S. on limiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe. "This is not a breakthrough," Schmidt told the Bundestag on his return, but "it opens a chance of preventing an unfettered...
...Pennsylvania. Reagan is budgeting roughly half the $29.4 million he will receive in federal campaign funds for TV, radio and print advertising. The ads will emphasize Reagan as the pragmatic Governor of California, a doer not an ideologue, an approach urged by Casey. To build an image as a statesman, Reagan plans to travel to Europe after the convention. Reflecting on his political philosophy, the man who was once considered the most ardent conservative in America admitted: "I think I'm kind of moderate." Though, he added, "maybe we can overdo moderation...
...letter in the Austin American-Statesman, William, 33, now says he believes in God and is apologizing to the nation for helping build up his mother's "personal empire," and for his adolescent efforts against school prayer. William has not joined any particular denomination, but he feels that "the best way to survive on this planet is through faith in a higher power." He remarks that his former atheistic colleagues "are entitled to their beliefs," but "faith is a strong binding force that can help any individual...
Vance is still puzzled by this one blind spot in a man whom he otherwise regards as a wise and potentially great statesman. Perhaps Carter's conviction that right makes might-that morality, truth and trust matter so much in politics-prevented him from viewing the Soviet Union more pragmatically at the outset, then caused him to overreact when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Carter's lack of an intuitive grasp of how to deal with the Soviets, combined with his righteous wrath over their misbehavior, has made him all the more susceptible to what Vance sees as Brzezinski...