Word: statesmanly
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...period of national mourning has been proclaimed by President Johnson. "His steadfast leadership served us undaunted through good times and bad--as businessman, provider for the poor and hungry, president, and elder statesman," Johnson said...
Johnsonism means effective action to get a major bill passed (civil rights) or a major annoyance done away with (such as Congressional efforts toward curbing the Supreme Court's redistricting decision). Johnsonism scorns the adage that a statesman is known by the enemies he has made, and believes that it is possible to do something for everybody. It calls for an identification with the entire populace, and using the populace's own words to talk to it. It is part sentimentality, part love; part forceful action, part slick derring-do. It believes unswervingly in the present and thinks...
...Subject A." On his first day out, Nixon barnstormed New England, told 240 Republicans at a $ 1,000-a-plate dinner in Portsmouth, N.H.: "Any statesman who is open-minded must consider facts and retain principles. Bob Taft did it years ago in housing and education. Above all else, Goldwater is a man of principle. You know he'll keep his word. Look who's raising this question. Have you ever looked over Lyndon Johnson's record...
...more than this year's record. To avoid a deficit, Belaúnde wants to raise taxes; the opposition wants to leave taxes alone and slice the budget down to size. The result is likely to be a compromise. "Belaúnde is beginning to look like a statesman," says an opposition leader. "If we can only curb his tendency to spend more than he should, Peru may well have its revolution within...
Discussing plans to create an institute in the Kennedy Memorial Library where academicians and public statesman would work together as they did in the Kennedy administration, Pusey urged the freshmen to imbibe this spirit...