Word: statesmanship
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...Johnson manages to bridge the gap between political genius and international statesmanship, it might enable the U.S. to regain and keep world leadership...
Credit was due both to Zik, the Easterner and Christian, and to Sir Abubakar, the Moslem from the North, for a level of statesmanship seldom found in nations hardly accustomed to peaceful resolution of such weighty matters...
Attacks from Within. Liberal Alberto Lleras Camargo, who became Colombia's first coalition President in 1958, was an able administrator who held the frente together by sheer statesmanship. Conservative Valencia, 55, a courtly, scholarly lawyer, lacks his predecessor's élan and political acumen. When his budget came before Congress last October, his own party attacked it as inflationary. But Valencia, the son of Colombia's most revered poet and a lover of poetry himself, has little patience for anything so prosaic as economics. Famed for his gallantry to the ladies and a romantic passion for hunting...
...will probably vote as a conservative on fiscal matters, a cautious liberal on civil rights, and as a selective Senator on such matters as foreign aid. Murphy may not become an instant Senate sage, however. At times he is given to sweepingly naive comments that scarcely smack of legislative statesmanship. Looking forward last week to his new job, Murphy announced: "I'm going to work to see that foreign policy is taken away from the State Department and given back to the people." Nonetheless, Senator Murphy's move from Hollywood to Capitol Hill came only after a great...
...show as synthetic as Ben Franklin in Paris, it scarcely matters whether the history is true or false. Librettist Sidney Michaels credits Franklin's successful pursuit of French funds and official recognition to a species of boudoir statesmanship. Despite his celebrated gynecophilia, rare Ben is, after all, 70 years old in 1776, and his torpid romancing of Louis XVI's mistress (Ulla Sallert) has to consist mostly of gallant guff and one balloon ascension...