Word: statesmanly
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...unable to get his party's nomination. Senator Fred Thompson was on the short list of presidential candidates until the G.O.P. club turned on him for supporting McCain's bill and trying to hold bipartisan hearings. The honest-to-a-fault Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan became a quirky elder statesman while still a young man. Colin Powell, he won't do what it takes...
...stuffed for the American Museum of Natural History. Lyndon Johnson returned to his Texas ranch to drink and smoke and grow his hair long like a hippie and wait to die. Richard Nixon did brooding penance beside the Pacific, then went back East to reinvent himself as elder statesman...
Dressed in his khaki army fatigue shirt, greenpants and army beret, Taylor bears the look of anelder statesman. His face is wizened and furrowed,but a sparkle of happiness shines from his eyes.Taylor says today is a good...
...Democrats. Ronald Reagan voted four times for F.D.R. Newt Gingrich calls F.D.R. the greatest President of the century. Bob Dole praises F.D.R. as an "energetic and inspiring leader during the dark days of the Depression; a tough, single-minded Commander in Chief during World War II; and a statesman...
...effectively to last nearly 25 years. Despite his readmission to office in 1917, after a spell commanding an infantry battalion on the Western Front, he failed to re-establish the reputation as a future national statesman he had won before the war. Dispirited, he chose the issue of the Liberal Party's support for the first government formed by the Labour Party in 1924 to rejoin the Conservatives, after a spell when he had been out of Parliament altogether. The Conservative Prime Minister appointed Churchill Chancellor of the Exchequer, but when he returned the country to the gold standard...