Word: williams
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...ironic that last week President Carter's appointment of Volcker to replace incoming Treasury Secretary G. William Miller as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank was generally viewed as a brilliant defense of the dollar. Said usually testy Senate Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire: "The President has shown outstanding judgment. His appointment will be praised by Congress, by participants in domestic financial markets and by the international monetary community." Added the Brookings Institution's Robert Solomon: "The President couldn't have found a better man." The stock market shot up, bond prices improved, and, despite Carter...
...WILLIAM BUCKLEY, conservative columnist and editor (National Review): There's no one that I know of who has the potential grip on the imagination of the American people that would be conclusive enough to cause everybody to say "there is a leader" in the sense, for instance, that F.D.R. was, like him or loathe him. There is no American leader of anything like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout...
...WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, former Senator: Anybody who takes issue with the government of Israel is taking his life in his own hands. The one man who has done this and written very well is George Ball. He has advocated an equitable or balanced policy toward Israel and her neighbors that I think is very constructive...
HOWARD JARVIS, tax-revolt crusader: Alexander Haig, for his understanding of Soviet and European military capabilities; William Clements the new Governor of Texas, for his program to try to rebuild free enterprise in his state; William Simon for his important book, A Time for Truth; and Comedian George Burns,, who at 83 is proving that all of the sugar in life is in the bottom...
...WILLIAM WINPISINGER, Machinists Union president: I think the country is crazy for a leader. That's the problem with the little fink we've got for a President now. It is still possible to call [AFL-CIO boss] George Meany a leader, but I happen to think he epitomizes negative leadership, characterized by inaction, immobility and stultified thinking. To me, Ted Kennedy has the skills to be a leader. He's charming; his staff has brains. Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich took on the utility company and the interlocking directorates. He told them baloney...