Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is one way and one way only by which the crisis can be resolved and the country pulled out of the Watergate swamp. I propose an extraordinary act of statesmanship and courage-an act at once noble and heartbreaking; at once serving the greater interests of the nation, the institution of the presidency, and the stated goals for which he [Nixon] so successfully campaigned. That act is Richard Nixon's own voluntary resignation as President of the United States...
...time in 105 years, a committee of the House of Representatives assembled last week to begin an inquiry into the possible impeachment of the President of the U.S. Like many historic occasions, this one began with relatively obscure preliminaries and routine, undramatic details. Unlike the solemn moment of nonpartisan statesmanship that was clearly called for, however, the first full-scale meeting of the House Judiciary Committee devoted to the impeachment question produced a round of unfortunate bickering between Democrats and Republicans and a vote recorded along strict party lines. The committee's chances for future cooperation were hardly destroyed...
...average assembly-line worker up 62?, to $5.70, and 3% for each of the next two years. The Administration provided a clear signal that it was satisfied with the deal. The terms, said the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, W.J. Usery Jr., exemplify "real industrial statesmanship." That endorsement is certain to weigh prominently on members of the Cost of Living Council, who must approve the contract before it becomes final...
...terror bombing of Indochina is in itself sufficient to make toppling the Nixon regime morally imperative. The continued bombing of the Khmer Rouge right up until the Congressionally imposed August 15 deadline betrayed any attempt of Nixonian "statesmanship" to rationalize its murders, and conclusively demonstrated the vicious insanity long buried in Nixon's psychology...
...Back in the age of reason, Thomas Jefferson wrote this clear and direct sentence: "The whole of government consists in the art of being honest." With all its simplicity, that statement expressed a profound conviction that truth could be a powerful tool of statesmanship. But in the world of today this seems to be a minority view...