Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matters of Degree. Despite all this, there seemed little doubt that the President would feel easier with Taylor gone. The freewheeling Texas politician and the austere Army general had little in common. In Saigon, Taylor served loyally, but more as soldier than statesman, with little enthusiasm for coping with the bafflements of Saigon politics. Moreover, there were indeed policy differences, of degree if not of direction, between Taylor and Johnson. During a visit to Washington last month, Taylor is said to have urged that the U.S. decide more clearly how existing troop commitments in Viet Nam are to be used...
...more different men could hardly be imagined. There was Charles de Gaulle, soldier, statesman, and symbol of a nation's pride, who once wrote that a great leader must "possess something indefinable, mysterious." And there was Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the boy from the drug store in Huron, S. Dak., who likes to say that a politician must "never forget he's just one of the folks." Yet in their meeting last week amid the Louis XV antiques of Paris' Elysee Palace, the French President and the U.S. Vice President got on quite nicely together...
Romulo Betancourt, LL.D., former President of Venezuela. An intrepid statesman who has demonstrated to the Americas the vitality of democracy...
Betancourt became president of Venezuela in 1945, was exiled by the regime of Marcos Perez Jimenez, and then served as Venezuela's elected president from 1959 to 1964 before stepping down. His citation called him "an intrepid statesman who has demonstrated to the Americas the vitality of democracy...
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, LL.D. Statesman, scholar, and orator without peer...