Word: statesmanly
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...Enough! Don't you think it time you end your attack on Robert Kennedy? He has proved himself an excellent statesman, leader and politician through his own doing and actions in the Senate. Many say he is a selfish opportunist. I ask you, why should he not take advantage of the conditions within the Democratic Party and the nation? Who do you suppose gave the national emphasis to such causes as opposing the war, the racial problem and the neglected rights of minority groups? I contend that R.F.K. opened the path for others to follow-Eugene McCarthy being...
...joined the party establishment: (the civil rights crusader who fought the Dixiecrats at the 1948 convention and who managed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill past a Southern filibuster has become the vice-president who said the Riot Commission's conclusion "is open to some challenge." And the visionary statesman who first proposed the Peace Corps and who pushed the test-ban treaty has been the Vice-president who was a leading spokesman for his Administration...
Nixon's beginning was an impressive performance in the New Hampshire primary where, with a heavy turnout of 104,000 G.O.P. voters, he gained 78% of the total votes following a campaign masterfully geared to exhibit the former Vice President as the nation's youngest elder statesman. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose cause was belatedly promoted by a haphazard write-in campaign after the abrupt exit of Michigan Governor George Romney, won only 11% of the vote, an unspectacular showing that some Republicans thought might possibly have condemned him to the political penumbra...
...this raw-fisted footsoldier from days past. To be in his presence is to be in the presence of unmistakable wisdom. To be eyed through his legendary horn rims is to be subjected to a glance from which no secret, dark or innocent, can be safe. He is a statesman, and a scholar...
...extremely well-cast play, Dennis King as Disraeli is debonair and mellifluent, a prince of players who conveys the facility of the successful novelist as well as the astuteness of the statesman. James Cossins' Gladstone is a subtle creation, the portrait of an un compromising man doing an honest, thankless job for a sovereign who can not abide him. But the play belongs to Miss Tutin. In the final act, without benefit of makeup sorcery, she and Victoria edge into old age. The fatigue of existence enters her voice, slows her step, dims her eyes like a patina...