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...Angeles, Harry Truman, discussing his own vocation, said: "A politician is the ablest man in a government, and when he's dead they call him a statesman." At 60, Harry Truman is very much alive...
Down to Moscow's rainswept airport dashed the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the Duke of Marlborough-Winston Churchill. With him dashed the cobbler's son from Tiflis. Never before had Joseph Stalin made such a good-will gesture to any visiting foreign statesman. Stalin was all smiles. He had been ever since his talks with Churchill began in the Kremlin ten days...
...have so many long and intimate talks with my friend and war comrade Marshal Stalin, and to deal with him on the many difficult questions inseparable from the united, forward march of the great nations. ... I hope most earnestly and I believe with great conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight of a broader and happier age for all, and that with him in this task will march the British Commonwealth of Nations and the mighty United...
...statesman is only a dead politician. I never want to be a statesman...
Will Clayton was not alone in this view: Jimmy Byrnes was dead-set against the three-man board, and Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch had personally phoned Congressmen, begging them to drop it. Georgia's Senator Walter George called the bill almost impossible to administer. New York's bell-shaped Mayor LaGuardia nut-shelled all the complaints; he told a Senate committee that the bill could be fixed by "one little amendment. Strike out every thing after the enacting clause...