Word: statesmanship
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...President threw wide-open the flaps of the G.O.P. tent. "No party," he said, "has a monopoly on brains or idealism or statesmanship. We-Republicans and Democrats alike-are motivated by the same loyalty to the flag, by the same devotion to freedom and human dignity, by the same high purposes for the nation's security and its people's welfare...
...Ralph Barton Perry '96, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, emeritus. In a letter to the Times of April 14, Perry asked for the admission of Red China to the U.N. and restoration of Formosa to mainland control. Hocking said that Perry's letter "contains a principle of first-rate statesmanship...
...statesmanship is to replace political expediency, legislators must seek a less partisan approach to the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty. To this end, the President should establish a special commission to investigate the causes of agricultural dislocation and suggest possible solutions to the farmer's economic difficulties. Formed of agronomists, economists, political scientists, and representatives of labor, management and farm groups, such a commission would be empowered to evaluate methods of agricultural production and distribution in the light of the nation's long-term needs...
...dragged the Supreme Court into politics by praising a "great, Republican Chief Justice" for the segregation decision, Eisenhower himself had to repudiate the Vice-President and show that this issue, above all others, must be kept as far from politics as possible. Clearly, Nixon lacks the qualities of statesmanship which are perhaps Eisenhower's greatest strength...
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 highly questionable. There are many independents and even Democrats who would support Eisenhower--but not if Nixon is on the ticket. If the President is really attempting to bring the Republican Party up to date, he had better make sure that his possible successor has principles...