Word: statesmens
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...final series will complete publication of The Adams Papers--years hence--with the General Correspondence and Other Papers of the three Adams statesmen--John, John Quincy, and Charles Francis...
...rock and reel"). These scratched words were the first of what was to become one of the great avalanches of words in U.S. history. The schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. In his diary, an autobiography and letters by the hundreds, John Adams chronicled his career, set the firm pattern for his descendants of making history with...
Shifting Middle. Though the final communiqué was the more moderate for Nehru's efforts, it was a woeful performance for the band of statesmen who had swept into Belgrade to render self-proclaimed moral guidance in the cold war. President Dorticós of Cuba badgered the conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism...
...Frank Buchman was one of the greatest of American statesmen, and it offends me greatly to have an American magazine give such a distorted account of his life...
...staging, and even in tone, to the previous week's "fireside chat'' by President John Kennedy. Natty in silk tie and bemedaled grey striped suit, Russia's boss put in a few ugly growls, but carefully framed them in peaceful phrases. "Life demands that statesmen . . . should not only say reasonable things, but also should not permit themselves in politics to cross the line when the voice of reason falls silent and a blind and dangerous game with the destinies of peoples begins . . ." pleaded Khrushchev, almost as if he could not understand what the world was squabbling...