Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roster of trustee boards, on cultural committees, on the speaking circuit--and indeed he is on all of these. When he comes to Harvard he can speak merely of what he did the previous day and attract a good sized audience. And yet he is neither a distinguished statesman, a respected scholar, nor an entertainment celebrity. David Olgivy has become a success selling soap, margarine, gasoline, and underarm deodorant...
...democracy or an idiocracy? We have in President Johnson [Sept. 23] a statesman who is gallantly trying to fight, almost without international support, the battle of the West against Chinese Communism. He is also a politician who knows he must carry a majority of the American "people with him in November if the "Battle of the West" is not to be lost in the ballot boxes of the U.S.A. This is an agonizing situation in which the President needs the support of as many influential persons and media as possible. At this juncture, every man, regardless of party, who agrees...
...Very Likeable." Bluntly put, many or possibly even most Americans do not greatly like or wholly believe their President. Johnson senses their antipathy and broods about it. A story making the rounds in Washington has Lyndon asking an elder statesman: "Why don't people like me?" The reply: "You are not a very likeable man, Mr. President...
...nation last week offered a vibrant welcome to an Asian statesman who stands to lose more than an argument if the U.S. reneges on its commitments across the Pacific. Only ten months after a resounding election victory, President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines flew to Washington for a state visit that meant far more to him, and his hosts, than the usual red-carpeted round of pleasantries. For Marcos, it represented a threefold opportunity - to renew a long-standing bond of friendship with the U.S., to make a case for increased U.S. aid to bail out his stagnating econ...
...Statesman's Game is a glum and pretentious fantasy written in humorless prose about Rupert Royce, a British shipping tycoon who has fallen in love with the Soviet Union and shows signs of a second love affair with Red China...