Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your feature confirms that our leading statesman, Menzies, is of world stature; your cover shows that our leading portrait painter, Dobell, does not make the grade...
...Melbourne Herald headlined its story MENZIES PORTRAIT-A STORM. The Sydney Sunday Telegraph reprinted the entire cover story, and the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "That American TIME magazine has chosen Mr. Menzies for its cover portrait is a tribute to a great Australian statesman and a boost for Australia...
Steadfast Statesman. Above and beyond the clattering typewriters, the telephone calls and his other business-as-usual, there was one momentous personal problem running through Lyndon Johnson's calculating-machine brain. When he arrived in Texas, he told his closest friends and well-wishers that some time during his vacation he would make a final decision on the question of running for the presidency...
...tablets?"). He hadn't done much campaigning outside of Texas, to be sure, but the first order of business, according to the Johnson master plan, was to stick to his Senate job, building and improving his legislative record and displaying the public image of Lyndon Johnson, the steadfast statesman, while other candidates battled through the primaries. Later, he would campaign on that record and that image-or so the experts said. Meanwhile, the L.B.J. outriders traveled all over the country, feeling out delegates, talking to political leaders, studying the political weather for him. Six months ago a big Johnson...
...virtue of a life spent in high office in Colombia and as the constructive head of the Organization of American States, Alberto Lleras Camargo ranks as Latin America's most creative democratic statesman. He is also a friend and admirer of the U.S., happy that his country is "governed by institutions that have their origin in Philadelphia." In Washington last week for a state visit, President Lleras thus won a special warmth and spoke words of special weight. His subject was the "backwardness" of Latin America-Lleras is too frank to call it "underdevelopment...