Word: statesmens
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...year law partner and the seigneur of a posh Fifth Avenue apartment, Nixon was soon jetting all over the world, touching base with statesmen and politicians. Most important, speech-making and fund-raising favors for G.O.P. candidates and committeemen from Florida to California won him liens on votes to be cast at future nominating conventions...
...forget that we need Kissinger more than he needs us. He is the only widely respected, farsighted and truly able diplomat who can bring about some understanding and cooperation in these times of worldwide political turmoil. Can we pride ourselves on having so many internationally successful statesmen that we can do without...
JACQUES CHIRAC, 41, Premier. More than a year ago, Chirac, then Minister of Agriculture, went out of his way to praise Giscard as "one of the rare statesmen today." After Pompidou's death, Chirac brashly defied the party barons by scorning the official Gaullist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and coming out openly for Giscard. Whether or not Chirac's defection contributed to Chaban's humiliating defeat at the polls, the barons were angrier than they have been at any time since Giscard abandoned De Gaulle...
...Government service as a Naval officer, Congressman and Vice President. If he left voluntarily, he would also get the normal presidential pension of $60,000 a year, plus up to $96,000 annually to maintain a staff and office. But the overt Democratic strategy has been to act as statesmen, avoid obvious partisanship and leave talk of resignation to the Republicans...
Literature is a seducer, we had almost said a harlot. She may do to trifle with, but woe be to the state whose statesmen writes verses, and whose lawyers read more in Tom Moore than in Bracton...