Word: statesmanly
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...Nixon wasn't all that bad. The passage of time is one reason. People have softened their views considerably." Another reason is that Nixon has spent the past ten years tirelessly and skillfully campaigning for rehabilitation, for public acknowledgment of what he considers his deserved status as elder statesman. Says Dean: "Richard Nixon is running for ex-President." That he should campaign with some success hardly surprises veteran Nixon-watchers like John Sears, a former White House deputy counsel. Says Sears: "Right now he's in a period of recovering, but what's so unusual...
...President had been content to preside over a series of carefully staged Rose Garden ceremonies, some honoring ethnics and other voter blocs, and to play the statesman's role on highly visible trips to China and Europe. But last week, with the challenges and chidings of the Democratic Convention still ringing in his ears, Reagan took the gloves off. Declared Campaign Director Edward Rollins: "We are ready to do combat...
...writing indicates a real basis for claims that Alice might have been a successful writer--or even possibly a statesman, since politics were her passion--had she lived in a different...
Reed, who studied industrial management and engineering at M.I.T., was attuned to the potential of technology and seemed a natural to lead Citicorp in the new era of electronic banking. Theobald was the traditional button-down banker, a statesman who was equally comfortable talking finance with corporate chiefs or foreign heads of state. Angermueller was not really a banker at all. He was a Harvard-trained lawyer who was adept at breaking down the legal barricades that stood in the way of Citicorp's moves across state boundaries and into new businesses like stock brokerage...
...since France's Prince de Talleyrand, who survived the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte and the restored Bourbon monarchy, has a statesman pursued his craft with such success under so many different masters. Gromyko has served the Soviet state through all of its tortuous transformations, from Stalinist despotism to the vicissitudes of the Andropov and Chernenko years. He has dealt with nine U.S. Presidents, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 14 Secretaries of State. Says a diplomat who meets often with Gromyko: "He remembers not because he read a brief or a book, but as often as not because...