Word: statesmen
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...Kennedy] was the quintessential statesmen,” Ehrlich continues. “There could not be a better person to represent Harvard football...
Helmut Kohl could relate. In the 1980s, Germans used to make fun of their Chancellor for his thick Rhineland accent and stumbling speeches. But when more-elegant and eloquent statesmen were dithering after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Kohl seized the moment. He propelled East and West Germany to unification within a year, while others thought that unification, if it happened at all, was a distant prospect. It was Kohl's decisiveness that made him a leader, not his honeyed tone...
...remember when some Republicans were statesmen who cared about our country, its people and its future. They disappeared in 1980. I want to see them back again. Donald A. Williams, Chapel Hill...
...remember when some Republicans were statesmen who cared about our country, its people and its future. They disappeared in 1980. I want to see them back again. Donald A. Williams, CHAPEL HILL...
...That is why both Holbrooke and Petraeus will do everything they can to nudge and puff Zardari and Karzai into being statesmen who occasionally act in their own national interest, as Zardari seems to have done by deciding to fight the Taliban. That is why Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acted with such alacrity to replace a good general, David McKiernan, with another, Stanley McChrystal, better versed in the tactics used to fight terrorist insurgencies. That is why we are in Afghanistan and Pakistan: because our enemies - the people who killed 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001 - are festering...