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Henry Kissinger is no exception. In his speeches and press conferences he is the cool-headed academic, the rational technician of international affairs. He cultivates the image of peacemaker, one who would use force reluctantly and only when necessary. But his private statements give a different impression--for example, "I wanted to bomb the daylights out of Hanoi, but Congress wouldn't let me." (The New York Times, 12/26/73). Or his justification of CIA efforts to instigate the military coup in Chile: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist...
...with Billy Mounger, vice chairman of the Mississippi delegation. "If he goes out and builds up political lOUs," says Mounger, "he's going to be ready four years from now." Connally does not want to become Ford's campaign manager, which he considers a job for a technician, not a statesman of his stature. Besides, he doubts Ford-Dole can win. Still, Connally will visit nearly 100 congressional districts in 72 days to stump for candidates for Governor and Congress. The same tactic was used successfully in the 1966 election by Richard Nixon, who rose from the bone...
Whatever happens, the suave, unflappable Sears has emerged as the most intriguing of the 1976 political campaign managers. Smoother and brighter than Ford's Rogers Morton and the departed Bo Callaway, far more seasoned and self-assured than Jimmy Carter's Hamilton Jordan, Sears is more a technician than an ideologue. This perhaps explains the Schweiker ploy: to Sears, Schweiker's potential influence on Northeast delegations was a plus that far outweighed the negatives of his liberal philosophy...
...many ways, Schmidt and Fuchs are the kind of opponents who bring an extra element of excitement to Olympic competition: athletes perfectly matched in skill yet diametrically opposed in style and temperament. Fuchs, the consummate technician who has spent most of the past two years in a training camp run by a government to which she is outspokenly committed. Schmidt, the power thrower who trains haphazardly and who recently quit the U.C.L.A. track team to protest the firing of the women's coach. The two have one thing in common. The loser will not complain about her coach-Schmidt...
...Soviet and East European regimes, he called for transforming Spain into a democracy without "dictatorial methods, recognizing political and ideological pluralism and with full respect paid to the result of general elections." The publication of Carrillo's speech in the East German party newspaper prompted a local television technician to remark: "That's the best thing I've read in Neues Deutschland in years...