Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Differing Brothers. During most of the Eisenhower years, Allen and John Foster, his elder brother and the Secretary of State, played a predominant role in national security affairs. Presbyterians both, the two were very different in temperament and style. Foster, who died in 1959, was a stiff, ascetic intellectual. Pipe...
Because of his competitive, hard-driving temperament, David English, as sociate editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, is admiringly referred to as a "flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968...
During much of the period between election and Inauguration, Richard Nixon purposely remained in the wings, saying little, digesting masses of reports from 21 study groups on problems ranging from the guaranteed annual wage to the post-Viet Nam economy. Now center stage is unavoidable. Nixon's first official address...
It is too easy to say that Americans have become too self ish to cooperate in attacking social ills. For all the present dis sent and division, all sorts of people throughout the country remain compassionate and responsive to need. Clearly, those qualities in the national character form a vital...
A will for what? Great resources and balky institutions-what can the President do? Much of the advice that he has been tendered reflects the impatience inherent in the American temperament. J. Irwin Miller, a leading Republican and a much respected Middle West business leader, believes that the problems of...