Word: statesmanly
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...Says she: "He looks like any college professor." Gone are the flowing beard, the Zapata mustache, the ragbag tatters. He wears a gray-blue business suit, a blue shirt, muted red-and-blue striped tie, dark socks, black shoes. Offstage he talks with the measured deliberation of a statesman-celebrity...
Most Presidents do not fully understand the exhilaration in waging peace until at last they try it. Take Richard Nixon, who found that playing global diplomat was a fine way for a politician to turn almost magically into a statesman. He got a Viet Nam ceasefire, made friends with mainland China, and signed an arms limitation agreement with the Soviets, all within a year. In a life of fighting one damn thing after another, he never had such a good time...
...really affirm and exploit the artistic side--the side I live in here. But I don't know--that would never sever the connection, never cut the umbilical cord--it would be like never leaving mother. Sometimes I just want to eschew acting--to be a statesman, to reconcile the U.S. and the USSR or something...
...policy making, thinking and politics, ideas and power." Giamatti's sole obsession in these essays--aside from a peculiar affinity to the word "assert," which he uses about once per page--seems to be the importance of education in developing a sense of citizenship. Referring to Plato's Statesman he writes that "education furthers the weaving of the web of the state, meshing as in a tapestry the various type of citizens...
Haig also commands international respect. After entering the higher level foreign policy apparatus as an aide to former Secretary of State Henry. A Kissinger '50, he served as commander of NATO forces. To those who would have Haig replaced, one might suggest the words of the Austrian statesman, Prince Metternich, who once said, "An intelligent man can make up the lack of everything except experience." At a time when the question of nuclear weapons deployment on European soil threatens the alliance as never before, the respect Haig commands among European leaders may prove invaluable. But this potentially tremendous influence...