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...experience as West German Defense Minister under Brandt, Schmidt brought vast expertise to international economic issues and nu clear defense questions within NATO, a gap that Kohl cannot hope to fill. Balanced against that, however, was Schmidt's notorious impatience, which drew sparks from other strong-willed statesmen, and his increasingly frequent bouts of personal depression...
Begin's rhetoric was more high-pitched, his images more starkly drawn than his predecessor's. All of Israel's older generation of statesmen had been deeply affected by the Holocaust-many in tragically personal ways, as was Begin-but Begin somehow seemed more indelibly marked by it, almost in fact to the point of obsession...
...support the rest...anonymously. Perhaps the next step will be a government of total anonymity, for which voters will select nameless candidates--Brand A or Brand B--on the basis of unattributed empty slogans and hollow promises, and anonymous records of supporting shameful legislation. The identities of these noble statesmen need be revealed only to the one constituency which might be expected to appland the kinds of policies we've seen this last year and a half: the corporate and upper-class interests who sign the campaign fund checks...
Watergate's clearest lesson may be, as you say, that a President is not above the law [June 14]. But the cardinal teaching is that the presidency demands superior statesmen who will infuse the institution with values and character. Nixon's crime is not so much that he broke any specific law, but that he fostered a climate in which dirty tricks were encouraged...
...break and restored the $3,000 deduction limit. Unwilling to endure the public's wrath alone, the House reluctantly followed suit. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte sneered at the Senate: "You got a bunch of fat cats up there raking in the big bucks. They can be big statesmen because they can collect those big honoraria." Utah Senator Jake Garn gibed that House members were "just as gutless" for retreating on their tax deductions...