Word: tacticians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swaggering 29-year-old lieutenant colonel, he swept his 37th Tank Battalion through Normandy, sealing off the peninsula in the eleven days after Dday. In his dramatic breakthrough to relieve Bastogne and his near legendary dash across the Rhine, "Abe" Abrams terrified the enemy as a daring tactician who relied on swift movement and overpowering violence. He believed in the shock value of mass attack combined with an awesome firepower that approached overkill. A captured German document said, somewhat hysterically, that Abrams' forces were totally made up of men who had been born out of wedlock or killed their...
...damndest thing," mused Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Joe D. Waggonner Jr. "Jerry just puts an arm around a colleague or looks him in the eye, says, 'I don't need your vote,' and gets it." Adds Edward F. Derwinski, an Illinois Republican, "Jerry is an open tactician. He doesn't look for clever ways to sneak in behind you. He does the obvious, which is usually common sense...
...television, the committee voted unanimously to allow the rest of the hearings, which are expected to last about six weeks, to be televised. In addition, the committee granted Lawyer St. Clair the right to question and call witnesses. Mindful of his reputation as a brilliant courtroom tactician, the committee also granted Rodino stringent powers to shut off St. Clair if necessary to stop him from obstructing the proceedings or filibustering...
...leader, is France's foremost Socialist and a formidable vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished in a dead heat with the Gaullists...
...Flexible Tactician. Kissinger approaches negotiations, not as a lawyer trying to dispose of a case, but as an intellectual and historian. His thorough steeping in the facts about a country and its problems seldom fails to impress government leaders. Although a flexible tactician, he will, if necessary, present a proposal over and over in hopes of getting it accepted. In Paris during 1972. negotiating an end to U.S. participation in the Vietnamese war, Kissinger often worked double sessions, seeing the North and South Vietnamese separately and at length in search of ways to bring the two antagonists closer. He established...