Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wing, Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, decided to vote against the treaties. Faced with that threat to party unity, Barzel reversed course, and only three hours before the final Bundestag vote, ordered the C.D.U. Deputies to abstain from voting. By opting for party unity instead of statesmanship, he earned the widespread condemnation of the West German press and reinforced his reputation as a political opportunist...
...help from a Democratic Congress in an election year, Nixon used his report, supplemented by a written message, to plead with his foes to put the public interest above their partisan concerns-and thus set them up for censure if they fail to respond to the lofty call to statesmanship. Confident, conciliatory and optimistic, Nixon was at his professional best in a speech honed, through eight drafts, to a taut 31 minutes. Heavy on generalities, soft on specifics, the address was far from inspirational, but it did reach a few moments of near eloquence...
...75th birthday, in 1969, Germany's Grain Tycoon Alfred C. Toepfer created a "European Award for Statesmanship," to be presented to the statesman who did most for the cause of European unity. After years of search, the selection committee picked their first prizewinner: Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, "for his outstanding services to the entry of Britain to the European Community, to European unification, and the standing of Europe in the world...
...dramatic contrast to his stridently partisan approach in the 1970 campaign, the President was the very model of cool statesmanship. First, Bob Hope primed the well-heeled audiences: "I didn't make any phone calls [when I stayed at the White House]; it was just a thrill to hear J. Edgar Hoover breathing." Then the President sounded the theme that is going to be emphasized throughout the campaign: "Peace in Our Generation." But peace with honor. America, Nixon warned, must stay strong. He made a pitch for his domestic programs: revenue sharing, welfare reform, Government reorganization. "They are historic...
...June, George Meany spoke as a plumber who is no longer underestimated. For many years, his brand of unionism has been rather flippantly declared an anachronism?much too parochial and materialistic for a society with a strong streak of idealism. While other labor leaders graduated to a more sophisticated statesmanship, Meany stayed the same, still speaking in the gruff accents of his Bronx boyhood, still looking like the traditional portly boss with heavy lids drooping threateningly over steel-gray eyes. His ever-present cigar only served to complete the unflattering picture...