Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wound up sleeping on the floor. In 1946 Tra became chief of staff of the Viet Minh in central Viet Nam. Not long after the war with the French ended, he was named deputy chief of staff to North Viet Nam's Defense Minister and legendary military strategist, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Tra returned to the South in 1965 to become head of the National Liberation Front's military committee and adopted the pseudonym Nam Trung...
Died. Ann Scott, 45, key legislative strategist of the National Organization for Women; of cancer; in Baltimore. A poet and college English teacher, Scott fought discrimination against women in academe. Elected a vice president of NOW in 1971, she was credited with gaining the support of Common Cause and the AFL-CIO for the Equal Rights Amendment, which she campaigned for virtually until the day of her death...
...John Salter, 62, a boyhood friend who served as Jackson's political strategist and chief aide until 1961. Later he founded a political consulting firm in Seattle, with Boeing as one of his biggest clients. A gregarious backslapper, Salter describes his main service to Jackson now as making certain that he "doesn't get too big for his britches." Salter lately has urged his friend to pay more attention to domestic affairs. He explains: "Some guy working in a paper mill in Everett can't even spell detente, but he knows that he can't afford...
During the 1850s Anthony mct Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her life-long friend and collaborator. Stanton had the intellectual ability to conceptualize and develop ideas, but she had little speaking presence or organizational talent. Anthony's gift was as a speaker and master strategist of the movement. Together they founded countless women's rights and suffrage associations, organized annual conventions, campaigned tirelessly from Massachusetts to the Western territories, and co-edited the first three volumes of the extensive History of Woman Suffrage...
...corner of his eye for an escape from the impasse. "I am more than willing to cooperate," Ford told a group of Democratic congressional leaders. "I believe there are more grounds for agreement than disagreement." Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a key Democratic strategist, sounded the same conciliatory note. "We must find a way to avoid confrontation. If Congress and the Executive get into a hassle, this country will suffer...