Word: statesmanly
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...plan for Europe. It was also the 21st anniversary of John Kennedy's first summit venture, during which he became so intimidated by the imperious Charles de Gaulle that he began to study French when he got home so he could be on equal terms with the old statesman...
...give a shit what happens," said the President of the United States. " want you all to stonewall it, let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover-up or anything else, if it'll save it, save the plan." The statesman, the architect of detente and the opening to China, talks in these moments like a don organizing the rackets in Brooklyn: the leader of the free world as a paranoid thug. Watergate was a large and shadowy kingdom. At least some of its landscape came at last to seem a portrait of the darkling mind of Nixon himself. The House...
...French in particular and Europeans in general do not have a moral conception of politics." An English political columnist ruminating on Watergate sounds as if he were discussing an odd tribal custom: "That's true. The Americans take democracy very seriously " Many Europeans admired Richard Nixon as a statesman the last strong American President in the field of foreign policy. To them, Watergate was a profligate waste of superior leadership. It weakened America's force in the world...
Frank Cross, the museum's director, has his own explanation for the Semitic Museum's startling comeback. As an elder statesman of the thriving Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Cross likes to think that the museum's fortunes are intrinsically tied to the success of the department. He tells a story about the Semitic Museum that is not very much like Gavin...
...BRITISH will only go so far, Margaret Thatcher's government has suffered in the Falkland crisis, receiving harsh criticism for not warning the public of the chances of an Argentine invasion. Lord Carrington, the able statesman who led the transfer of power in Rhodesia, was forced to resign along with several lower-level officials. Clearly, the British felt shamed and enraged by the Argentine take-over. Thatcher, bitterly attacked for her supply-side economic policy, is now determined to win big in the Falklands and rally support around the Tory government. In the several days since the fortilla set sail...