Word: statecraft
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Presidents are only part of this unwitting conspiracy. Politics is now a drama of motion. The media love the exhilaration of nomadic statecraft. Anchors like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather climbed the ladder by breathless appearances at exotic summits from Beijing to Moscow...
...Statecraft is a modulator's art. "Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time -- or never...
Great issues of statecraft normally require great deliberation. Since the U.S. and the Soviet Union opened talks on controlling the growth of their strategic nuclear arsenals in 1969, only two limited treaties have been signed, the last one in 1979. East-West negotiations on reducing conventional armies in Europe began in Vienna and have yet to reach any agreements. Members of the European Community have been working toward economic integration, scheduled for 1992, since the Treaty of Rome was signed...
Kate Simon's travel books and her autobiographical portraits, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World, are admired for their good sense, wit and pithy grace. These qualities serve her well as a popular historian of a period that has set the Western world's standards for art, culture, cynical statecraft and consumer spending. The legacy of the Italian Renaissance is never far from contemporary tastes; its style and egocentricities survive wherever easy money, ambition and ideas flourish. Lofty mindedness and low animal cunning rarely had a better stage on which to interact. As Simon puts it, "The susurrus of silks...
...White House and sex on the presidential yacht. Her version of John Kennedy gives new meaning to the Bay of Pigs affair, as the randy Commander in Chief leaves his lover mad and languishing in a Swiss sanatorium. Elsewhere in this view of Washington below the Beltway, sex and statecraft are cranked up to date. "The real story at the heart of politics and male power was their wives and lady friends," thinks Deena Simon, the gossip columnist with a nose for news but practically no nose. "Just ask Gary Hart...