Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Larry O'Brien, John Kennedy's most artful campaign manager and Capitol Hill strategist, who has since shouldered the bigger burden of pushing Johnson's mighty legislative raft through Congress...
...Okamura most wanted to meet was Huynh Tan Phat, No. 2 man and chief strategist of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. After repeated messages, Phat finally arrived at the camp after Okamura had languished there more than a month. He was a short, wiry man with piercing eyes, a thin mustache and a crew cut, wearing a well-tailored khaki shirt and trousers, plus the standard "Ho Chi Minh sandals," cut from old tires. When Okamura complained that he had been robbed of his cameras, lied to and starved, Phat replied: "You have been...
Delayed Glory. Something of a disappointment also awaited brilliant but unreliable Iain Macleod, still a hero of the Tory youth organizations and leader of a dedicated group of backbenchers in the Commons. Home decided to leave Macleod in the secondary role as chief Tory strategist against Labor's proposed nationalization of the steel industry. Since the Laborites are not expected to press for nationalization soon-with their three-vote margin they can scarcely expect to carry the measure-Macleod is not likely for some time to have a chance for combat or glory...
Churchill wielded greater personal power during the five wartime years than any other Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...
Albert is convinced that Lyndon Johnson will not make any such mistakes. Says he of Lyndon's ability as a congressional strategist: "He's one of the best who ever came down the pike. He moves when you don't know that he's moving, and his greatest talent is his tenacity and his endurance. Most Administration measures will not be handled in a rubber-stamp fashion. They'll be altered in the committees and altered on the floor. But they can be passed without the cliffhanging operations we've had in the last...