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Indira's major newspapers and magazines, most of which had been harassed into silence by censorship and government found their voices again. The Time of India called the election "a second liberation struggle" and added "Never before has the country been through such hell." Observed the Statesman, which had courageously criticized emergency excesses: "We Indians can hold our heads a little higher today." The Indian Express which had been brought to the verge of bankruptcy by a variety of governmental dirty tricks, said, "Indian democracy will never again be the same . . .No future government however large its majority...
...fast learner and has enough self-confidence to admit when he has not yet studied an issue sufficiently to make up his mind. After his meeting with Carter earlier this month, British Prime Minister James Callaghan returned to London and said that he had never before met a statesman who spoke with such openness. Above all, Carter has left no doubt that he is in charge of making U.S. policy. Remarks a White House insider: "Stuff the criticism. He said what he was going to do. He won the election and now he's doing...
...defeated Roosevelt watches the storm clouds of World War I gather in Europe. Here the jingoistic, "big-stick" aspect of Roosevelt's personality obscured through most of the show, becomes clear. Unable to sit quietly in his old age and act the part of an elder statesman, T.R. rounds up a volunteer regiment and offers to lead them into the fray, an offer promptly refused by President Wilson. Still, all four sons serve courageously, with the youngest, Quentin, flying for the air corps, and the blustery old roughrider shouts a rousing "bully" at the news of every medal they receive...
...Godless Commies knew it, only the American people didn't. In almost 20 years in a decision-making seat, I've heard lots of claims about the serious harm our stories would do, but not one panned out. People are always trying to get me to be a statesman instead of a journalist. It's fine work, but not what I chose...
Connally is in danger right now of slipping into elder statesman status. Most Republican leaders, Gerald Ford among them, probably suspect he has yet to tell all about his Watergate ties, and so are afraid to pick him as a national candidate. (Hence Robert Dole.) During the election Republicans utilized Connally's ties to big money more than they did his campaigning ability. Ford even offered him the chairmanship of the party last year, but Connally declined this one-way ticket to the backstage and out of the national spotlight. Connally is too ambitious to be sent...