Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Personal Attitudes: Trust...
...make leadership possible, the essential link between leaders and followers must be restored: trust. As Toynbee has put it, the leader must "make his fellows his followers." This can happen only if they trust him enough not to examine or attack each of his individual actions and are willing to go along with him for a while. At what point does this partly automatic following, which Toynbee calls mimesis (literally, imitation), turn into blind obedience and abdication of responsibility? That is the crucial problem in a democracy, and it can be solved only if leaders and would-be leaders...
...seat when Justice John Marshall Harlan retired in 1971. A moderate Republican who has campaigned for both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, she was U.S. representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, 1969-1972. A founder of the soon-to-open First Women's Bank & Trust Co. of New York, she now heads the international practice of a Wall Street law firm. Brooklyn-bred Hauser holds degrees from four universities; she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg at 21 and a New York University law degree...
...Herbert J. Stern, 37, used his prodigious memory and zeal for work to enforce high morality in positions of public trust. As U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, he waged a war on corruption that yielded indictments of 70 public officials-including a mayor, secretaries of state, an ex-speaker of the New Jersey assembly, a police chief, assorted judges, postmasters, highway superintendents, even a U.S. Congressman. A graduate of Hobart and the University of Chicago Law School, Stern headed the investigation of the Malcolm X murder case as assistant district attorney in New York City. It led to three convictions...
Since then, Nixon has been the recipient of daily hell and very little trust. He has responded in kind, attempting whenever possible to depict journalists as biased sensationmongers. In a TV speech ten weeks ago, Nixon protested that "the wildest accusations have been given banner headlines and ready credence as well." He was correct about the headlines. What Nixon did not mention is that most of the "wild accusations" about Watergate have turned out to be true. Considering the complexity of the material and the Administration's obfuscation, it is striking how few important factual errors have appeared...