Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clamor of Texas independent oilmen for sharper cutbacks in oil imports was answered last week by a realistic voice, speaking, of all places, from Texas. The speaker: Houston's Will L. Clayton, one of Texas' elder statesmen, a founder of the giant Anderson. Clayton & Co., cotton firm, a onetime Under Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Clayton's message to his fellow Texans who expect the Government to cut imports more: stop trying to promote the "special interest of certain oil producers against the national interest...
Your article reveals a great but neglected American. Aaron Bohrod's nostalgic cover painting tells the T.R. story in a single picture-proving we still have artists who can communicate. But where are the courageous, uncompromising statesmen...
...most sensitive thing in the Senate-seniority." But Russell was not quite right: the most sensitive thing in the Senate was Lyndon Johnson, and his instinct told him to go ahead. Says he: "I pushed in my stack." Not only did Johnson somehow make senior Democrats feel like statesmen in giving up their preferment, but he won the lasting gratitude of the younger Senators.* Says Mike Mansfield, now the assistant Democratic leader: "He gave us a chance to blossom...
Most of all, Sukarno wants to be loved and admired. He is happy when surrounded by schoolchildren; it delights him to keep statesmen waiting while he listens patiently to a ragged old woman's complaint. He likes the traditional things of his national life, from Indonesian painting to puppet shows to dukuns (soothsayers). His favorite dukun, a ripe female named Madame Suprapto, last week offered him a particularly explicit prophecy: "The first big bomb will fall in Indonesia in March. The United States will intervene in the struggle between Padang and Djakarta, then the Soviet Union will intervene...
...coverage of the government. "Many of my colleagues in the newspaper business have leaped to the conclusion that all public affairs not directly connected with national defense must be conducted in the open," he said. "I disagree. For it is only behind closed doors that most politicians -yea, even statesmen-honestly express their views and try to get at the meat of the question ... No sound policy is decided upon without frank exchange of views. And a frank exchange of views is rarely reached with the press looking over the shoulders of the policymakers...