Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find it ironic and pitiable that the Senate majority leader "wouldn't enjoy going away and doing nothing." For I concur with the Roman statesman Cicero, who said, "He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing...
...personality, Trudeau and Lévesque are almost exact opposites. Canada's Prime Minister is cerebral, disciplined, removed, impatient with his intellectual inferiors. His personal motto is "Reason over passion." Trudeau is a political theorist turned political activist who thinks of himself as a philosopher-statesman. His public speeches frequently sound like university lectures. First elected Prime Minister in 1968, partly because of his Kennedy-like charismatic appeal, he has seldom been far from the front pages, some of which he would prefer to have avoided?most notably those recounting the stormy breakup last spring of the marriage to his young...
...final analysis, all one can really do when assessing a politician is to measure his contributions against his shortcomings. On that account, the pharmacist's son-turned-statesman comes out deserving of the veneration he has been accorded. When historians decide, as is their wont, which men can be called "great"--which combine consistent articulation of ideals with a constructive and inspiring approach to the conduct of public affairs, Hubert Humphrey will justifiably be among them...
...Texas, the Austin American-Statesman offered a variation on that theme. "Oh well," said an editorial, "one thing Carter doesn't have to worry about -he's too short to hit his head on helicopter doorframes...
...biggest question was whether Begin, this perennial angry voice of the opposition in the Knesset since Israel's founding, had the imaginative gifts to become a statesman once power was his. The flexibility he has demonstrated in responding to Cairo's peace initiatives so far indicates that the answer well may be yes. Begin should have no trouble taking forthright moves for he is bolstered by his enormous self-confidence. His countrymen appreciate this. According to a popular apocryphal story currently making the rounds in Israel, the Premier's wife Aliza ruins an omelet that...