Word: tactician
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When he moved to the State Department, there was speculation that Kissinger would institutionalize his policies. Instead, he has become the institution. In foreign affairs, Nixon is still commander in chief, but Kissinger has asserted himself as both strategist and tactician with such sweeping command that there is no one in the White House to challenge his power. The State Department, so often derogated by the President and his aides, has been relatively untainted by Watergate. Kissinger is known to believe that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct foreign policy from the White House in the present...
...House, he had met Nixon a dozen times but complained, "The President doesn't even know who I am." Once a corporation lawyer and lobbyist, as well as an assistant to former Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Colson had been hired by Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow as a political tactician. He proceeded to exploit his friendships with many labor leaders. Colson gained Nixon's appreciation with his advice on how the President could gain labor support for his re-election−advice that seems to have been successful...
...chief legal tactician was Anthony Amsterdam, a law professor then at the University of Pennsylvania, now at Stanford, and his tactics soon began to pay off dramatically. Amsterdam and other lawyers won a stay from the Supreme Court in one case while the racial bias issue was being considered, scored a legal first with a previously unheard-of class action habeas corpus petition that blocked all Florida executions, and then in 1967 won a stay for everyone on California's death...
REPRESENTATIVE LESLIE ARENDS, 77, has been Republican Whip for 30 years and is one of Gerald Ford's key aides in pushing Nixon legislation through the House. Popular and gregarious, an unsung parliamentary tactician of confounding skill he blocked a 1971 House vote on the Mansfield Amendment, which called for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Viet Nam within six months. For all his enthusiasm, however the Illinoisan is frank about G.O.P. problems when they occur. "The way things are going," he said during a low point, "we couldn't put the Ten Commandments into the bill...
Image Problem. Few Germans could imagine anyone shouting "Rainer, Rain-er!" for Opposition Leader Barzel, who took over the reins of his party last year. A former Minister of All-German Affairs, Barzel is a gifted orator and highly intelligent tactician-with an image problem that he has never been quite able to shake. Critics variously complained that he was an ambitious opportunist and as "spontaneous as a robot." This time, perhaps to give himself a more statesmanlike image, Barzel abandoned the slashing political style that voters had come to expect from him, and conducted a deliberately low-key campaign...