Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Didn't Hear. Lehman long ago achieved the stature of a vastly admired Democratic elder statesman and humanitarian. For his lifelong efforts...
...problems-the survival of NATO, the future of the proposed multilateral nuclear force, the existence of tariff walls between the Common Market and the U.S. Since mid-October, the U.S., Britain, West Germany and Italy have changed their leaders, a point that Charles de Gaulle, now the senior Western statesman in point of tenure, has not overlooked. A cartoon in the satirical French Weekly Le Canard Enchainé shows Pupils Erhard and Douglas-Home seated before Schoolmaster De Gaulle as Johnson, in short pants, enters the classroom. "Sit down, Johnson," says De Gaulle. "I am going to repeat...
Once, when George Catlett Marshall was offered $1,000,000 to write his autobiography, he stiffly replied: "The Government of the United States has already paid me for my services." Three years before he died in 1959, the soldier-statesman agreed to tell his story for nothing. On the condition that his biography would not be published during his lifetime, Marshall gave 52 hours of interviews to a nonprofit foundation created for the sole purpose of documenting the remarkable career of the boy from Uniontown, Pa., who grew up to command more than 8,000,000 men in World...
...minute for one hour (a gesture normally reserved for deaths in the royal family), Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: "There are times when the mind and the heart stand still." From Sir Winston Churchill came a statement: "This mon strous act has taken from us a great statesman and a wise and valiant...
Differences between Kennedy and Johnson were made evident, however. Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, said that much of the late President's appeal as a statesman lay not so much in the rubetance of his foreign policies as in "his youth and vitality. This, I'm afraid," said Hoffmann "died with him, and it will be very hard to replace...