Word: temperments
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...temper flares rarely. Recently, after he ended an unsatisfactory meeting with a contractors' group over black employment, the contractors stayed in the conference room arguing loudly after Shultz had left. He charged back in and brusquely ordered them...
Richardson's welcome of staff initiative and readiness to exchange ideas should help soothe the temper of HEW, which employs many of Nixon's in-house dissenters. Those liberal dissenters are getting a Secretary cut from the same moderate-to-liberal mold as his predecessor. At the 1968 Miami convention that nominated Nixon and Agnew, Richardson's was one of the few dissenting shouts from the floor when it was moved that Agnew's nomination be made unanimous...
...parts of a book that sometimes buckles under Friedrich's determination to make it definitive. Least successful is his attempt to blame the Post's death on the American corporate system, after he has clearly shown that the fault lay with nothing so abstract but with the temper of the times and individual mistakes...
...PRESIDENCY: It's a terribly lonely job being President. He is surrounded by yes men who try to find out what the boss wants and give it to him. They don't protect him sufficiently from daily follies and lapses of judgment and temper. There is also a tendency for some political people to try to screen the President from the outside world, and defend him no matter what. It's no different in any administration...
...Instead of serving as a meeting ground for extremes, it turns into a no man's land, where men and ideas are caught in a withering crossfire. Yet it is precisely in a time of transition that all the qualities usually associated with the center−patience, good temper, a skeptical willingness to wait and see−become more valuable because they are so scarce...