Word: statesmanship
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...member of the U.S. armed forces in Western Germany, I have observed that many of my fellow soldiers as well as a large majority of thinking Germans were shocked by Stevenson's statement on the draft. This is not the time for halting statesmanship or cheap appeals for mother votes. Give...
Swinging through Ohio to aid Incumbent Senator George Bender, through Indiana, New York and New England, the Vice President moved eventually into Manhattan to be principal speaker at Francis Cardinal Spellman's annual dinner honoring the memory of Al Smith. There Nixon sailed beyond politics to statesmanship, predicted to a banqueting 2,500: "Most of us here will live to see the day when American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school-public or private-with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination and prejudice have no place in America...
...amounted "to one of the most highly treasonable statements ever made by a member of the Opposition." Amidst outraged howls, the major was forced to withdraw. Writing in the Spectator, waspish Randolph Churchill protested that Britain now had a Turkish Foreign Secretary, and added, "This is what passes for statesmanship in the Eden...
...until they have complied with the Supreme Court's desegregation decision. The amendment brought roars of anger from Southern Democrats. Shouted Louisiana Democrat George Long: "Louisiana is not going to integrate. I do not care what kind of a law you pass here." It also brought some reasoned statesmanship. Chicago Democrat William L. Dawson, like Powell a Negro, took his own stand against the amendment. Said he sadly: "I would not deny to the children in all states the opportunities to obtain their education because the people of a few scattered states have not yet obeyed the mandate...
...legislative program, but it is virtually impossible to point to a single substantive policy in the past three years that has been his own. The combined lack of creative leadership and of consistent political principle make Nixon's opportunism dangerous to Eisenhower Republicanism and to the nation.... Eisenhower's statesmanship has been the kind that can unify a nation, Nixon's antics are intensely partisan. Eisenhower's policy has been generally liberal; Nixon's real policy is totally elusive. As a quick-change artist of the worst sort, Nixon's entire political career makes current support for Eisenhower's Republicanism...