Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Restored, you wrote that "statesmen often share the fate of prophets"-that they're without honor in their own country. Do you feel that you're suffering this fate...
Almost all the statesmen will seize the occasion to do some bilateral negotiating. Hundreds of such meetings will take place (though nowhere near as many as the potential maximum of 1,190, presumably). Ford is expected to confer at least twice with Brezhnev, for instance, about the SALT II negotiations and the currently stalled Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction (MBFR) talks in Vienna. Chancellor Schmidt has let it be known that he hopes to see every Eastern European party leader, starting with Brezhnev, Poland's Edward Gierek and East Germany's Erich Honecker. Giscard and Wilson...
While Ford has parleyed with Brezhnev and Wilson and a dozen other statesmen, he counts a couple of his most memorable moments as the night he sat in Boston's Old North Church to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride and the evening of July 4 when he stood in Baltimore's Fort McHenry and gazed at the Stars and Stripes and heard the cannons rumble out over the bay. His favorite newspaper may be the Grand Rapids Press, which he scans for news of his friends. When the mother of an old acquaintance...
...wartime union of the colonies, American statesmen assumed, would be only temporary. "The present Union will but little survive the present war," James Madison predicted. "They [the states] ought to be as fully impressed with the necessity of the Union during the war as of its probable dissolution after it." Endless bickerings in their Continental (not "National") Congress, accusations by small states against large and by the poor against the rich, the difficulty of securing "contributions" from the states-all these have become familiar in our own time in the meetings of sovereign independent states in a so-called "United...
...establishment, Scranton served in Congress for two years, then was elected Governor of Pennsylvania for a four-year term. In 1964, he made a try for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Since then, he has been regularly appointed to presidential commissions and special missions. He was one of a dozen statesmen who were recently called in by Kissinger to discuss the breakdown of negotiations in the Middle East...