Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flexed Muscles. The Sunday night announcement was no problem for U.S. dailies-except that it took an extra day for their editorial writers to react. When they did, the consensus was overwhelmingly favorable. The Philadelphia Inquirer praised "an act of courage and statesmanship unparalleled by any U.S. chief executive for at least a third of a century," and the Baltimore Sun approved "an activist flexing of government muscles not seen since the early Roosevelt experiments." "No longer," noted the Miami Herald, "is the American economy all sail and no rudder." Cartoonists portrayed Nixon variously as a parody of Roosevelt, ministering...
Pointing out the risks Nixon is taking "with his own traditionally conservative party through this daring reversal," Chicago Today declared: "That's statesmanship." But Nixon reminded the Louisville Times of the girl who, "protesting she would never consent, consented. In his new economic plan he is doing what he said he did not want to do and would not do." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker described the role of Treasury Secretary lohn Connally in the policy switch as a "virtuoso performance" and foresaw "a remarkable Republican ticket next year, featuring one man who looks like Richard Nixon...
...claims on the President's conduct of foreign affairs. In as early a tract as A World Restored, Kissinger had written that "the impetus of domestic policy is a direct social experience; but that of foreign policy is not actual, but potential experience-the threat of war-which statesmanship attempts to avoid being made explicit." In other words, popular opinion was little more than an encumbrance on those few who were capable of making decisions. For if the foreign diplomat were allowed to feel that the President's policy could be swayed by domestic upheavals, then the credibility of threat...
...FOURTEEN students receive bachelor's degrees in Harvard's three-hundred-thirty-fifth Commencement Exercises. Honorary degree goes to Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky "for his dedicated statesmanship, open-hearted humanitarianism, and distinguished service in the Armed Forces of the United States." Stephen J. Kelman '70, Swedish meatball for the Boston Globe, is invited back for the second consecutive year to deliver the Pig Latin Oration on "The Ythmay of Expressionary," In his swearing-in ceremony, Harvard's new president comments...
...subject say quite clearly that if the United States were to win they will support it. Take somebody like Arthur Schlesinger. He's been absolutely explicit. He says, if, contrary to my judgment, the government proves to have been successful, then we will all be applauding the wisdom an statesmanship of the government. And I don't think that statement is in any sense outlandish. I think it does reflect the almost automatic opinion of liberal America on the subject. Which isn't terribly surprising. The Germans were perfectly civilized people. Would they have opposed the war if they...