Word: statesmanly
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...reminded of a Dutch joke: In the year 2000, a schoolboy was asked who Brezhnev was. After a pause, he answered: "An unimportant Russian statesman in the time of Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
With galleries only half filled despite the portentous occasion, House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino introduced the authorizing resolution by aptly quoting what British Statesman Edmund Burke had said in 1771 when the British Parliament was considering an impeachment case. "We stand in a situation very honorable to ourselves and very useful to our country, if we do not abuse or abandon the trust that is placed in us," said Rodino...
From traveling secretary of baseball's Cincinnati Reds to reporter to Washington bureau chief to Journalist Statesman-in-Residence. And what does Reston search for? The meaning of the nation's 200th anniversary. Perhaps he thinks that America will find "dignity, simplicity, and unity" through some gala birthday party. It is a fruitless hope...
...with simplicity, dignity, or unity. He saw almost from the beginning that the U.S. government did not tell the whole truth about Vietnam, yet he did not lead American journalists in attacking the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He felt he had a role to play--as journalism's elder statesman and voice of moderation. He saw "a great nation" fighting someone else's war, but he gave the great nation the benefit of the doubt: he wanted more information before making a judgment...
...there is a new caution, an extra moment of thought before he delivers his carefully phrased answers. There is less time for sleep (five hours a night) and more demands for him to fulfill the protocol role of office. The playboy of the West Wing has become the serious statesman...