Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan is, according to his aides, somewhat more interested in a summit meeting now than he was last year, when he strongly implied there must first be a major breakthrough in the arms-control negotiations. Republican strategists believe the President would benefit from a grand gesture of statesmanship and that even the more modest accomplishment of resuming the stalled talks in Geneva would deprive the Democrats of a potentially damaging issue. "All other things being equal," says an Administration official, "we'd rather that Walter Mondale not be able to go into the campaign accusing us of having presided...
...durability of this economic expansion is going to be significantly limited by the huge deficits in the federal budget." Industry leaders share that anxiety. Says John Smale, president of Procter & Gamble: "The size of the federal deficit is a national problem of substantial urgency that must be addressed with statesmanship, vigor and speed...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who dismissed Calvin Coolidge as a Vermont hayseed - a view based in part on the writing of William Allen White, the Emporia (Kansas, that is) sage- is now being challenged by Thomas B. Silver of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. Coolidge, claims Silver, may have understood his times well, and, besides, his famous line, "The business of America is business," happens to be true...
...peaceful uses, there began a generation of rising affluence throughout much of the world, of rapid growth in output and incomes that continued through the '50s and '60s. One of the early milestones of that era was the Marshall Plan of 1947, an act of imaginative statesmanship that started the rebuilding of the war-shattered economy of Western Europe into the mighty industrial engine of today. It also constituted formal recognition-fulfilling the promise of the monetary conference at Bretton Woods in 1944-that the U.S. and other economies share an interdependence, which has grown with almost every...
...Because Reagan is looking formidable, perhaps unbeatable in next year's election. Therefore the Kremlin is more likely to negotiate an agreement that suits its own purposes some time during the next 15 months, while Reagan is a candidate who needs to impress the voters with his statesmanship, rather than later, when he is a second-term President with the election safely behind him. There is talk of "the 1972 precedent": Richard Nixon was able to go to a summit in Moscow and sign the SALT I accords in an election year, when he was doing a number...