Word: statesmanly
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...those who see Richard Nixon as evil incarnate, there is no tragedy in his fall from grace and power. It looks different to those of us who saw him as a good man, with flaws; as a statesman struggling to reshape the world so that peace would be secure for the next generation, brought low when he provided the weapon to those who sought to destroy him. --from With Nixon by Raymond K. Price...
...Republicans expect Gerald Ford, 64, no matter how much he relishes retirement, to jump in, largely out of loyalty to the anti-Reaganites who supported him in 1976. In contrast to Reagan's courting of the party organization-traditionally dominated by conservatives-Ford has been playing the elder statesman. By Christmas, he will have logged more than 200,000 miles lecturing college students, playing in golf tournaments, and attending public gatherings. His strategy is to stay as prominent as possible, so that he can move fast if Reagan announces his candidacy. Observes David Liggett, Ford's 1976 coordinator...
...this point of swelling disbelief that Sadat was serious, Menachem Begin showed that he too could be an innovative statesman. Although he may privately have been trying only to call Sadat's bluff, the Israeli Premier accepted Sadat's proposal. The commitments were firmed up, in an extraordinary act of television diplomacy, during interviews with Anchorman Walter Cronkite on last Monday's CBS Evening News (see box). Begin thereupon summoned the Knesset to provide the necessary authorization...
...There's no job I have really aspired to that I haven't had," reflected Elder Statesman John McCloy last week. The occasion was a dinner sponsored by the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. McCloy, 82, who has served as Assistant Secretary of War (during World War II), president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and adviser to seven Presidents, received the institute's third Statesman-Humanist Award-which puts him in good company. The first two winners: Jean Monnet, architect of Europe's Common Market, and former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace...
There is no better tonic for a President in trouble than a tour of the horizon aboard Air Force One. Red-carpet welcomes and cheering crowds in far-off places boost his morale and make him a world statesman, not just a politician, to the folks back home. Jimmy Carter prescribed for himself precisely that tonic last September: he was suffering a decline in the polls, and his closest adviser, Bert Lance, was fighting a losing battle for his job. Carter planned to visit nine countries in eleven days, starting Nov. 22. But last week he decided to call...