Word: statesman
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...network's "Special Report," will step down from those duties after the election. (He will remain on air in a limited capacity.) Hume worked as a correspondent for ABC News for 23 years before moving in 1996 to FOX, where he has been the network's elder statesman and a leading proponent of its "fair and balanced" credo. Hume spoke with TIME about stamping out bias, what's next for the GOP and the differences between FOX and other mainstream media outlets...
...Obama, who at times during his campaign has spoken critically of Clinton's two terms in office, returned the favor. He called Clinton passionate and smart, "a great President, a great statesman, a great supporter...
...able to do more than one thing at a time." But there was a storm brewing among Obama's supporters in Congress and the Beltway establishment. "My BlackBerry was exploding," said an Obama aide. "They were saying we had to suspend. McCain was going to look more like a statesman, above the fray...
...number of times we hear him on the telephone tapes telling friends and enemies, "I love you." This is an unusual thing to hear ... Nixon, I think, is another good example, where in public he could, with some exception, be quite statesmanlike. He could be the world statesman. You listen to him in private, and it's a very different person...
Obama, meanwhile, is running a campaign with the unofficial motto No Drama Obama. He handles emotion with rubber gloves and tongs, as though he has internalized Napoleon's dictum that the heart of a statesman should be in his head. His body language is restrained, his emotional range narrow: "I don't get too high when I'm high, and I don't get too low when I'm low," he says. "That, I think, is a temperamental strength...