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...world has "little tolerance of greatness," and that in an era of computers, expert teams and government by consensus, the Churchillian kind of leadership may never again assert itself. But one of Churchill's greatest contemporaries, Konrad Adenauer, 89, does not share that fear. "What makes a statesman great?" he asks. "He needs first of all a clear conception of what is possible. Then he needs a clear conception of what he wants. Finally, a great leader must have the power of his convictions, a moral driving force. Churchill radiated it. He had fire and daring from the days...
Pearson's personal integrity and international reputation as a statesman have never been at issue. But as a politician he has stumbled over one rusty little wire after another, nearly always involving the old-guard politicians in his government...
Churchill wielded greater personal power during the five wartime years than any other Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...
...with all possible respect that if the late President really was as he is here presented-so dedicated a public servant, so faithful a husband and devoted a father, so witty, learned, and profound an orator, writer, and thinker, so genial a friend, prayerful a Christian, and enlightened a statesman-he is better off in Heaven, where, according to an electoral oration in Ohio by Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, we may now confidently assume...
Winston Spencer Churchill can hardly have seen much of government "and Parliament and forensic politics" at 23, but he moves in and out among their deviations with the case, if not the knowledge of a veteran statesman...