Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courage, character and intellect." Yet it was transparent that Agnew was chosen in large part because he was acceptable to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others in the party's Southern wing. Nixon spoke earnesty of Agnew's campaigning talents and called him "a statesman" who was amply qualified to take over as President...
Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks of a roadside field in this rural county, a billboard proclaims: "McGOVERN--A COURAGEOUS PRAIRIE STATESMAN." And there is McGovern, hair tousled, walking into the wind...
...British periodical, The New Statesman, has claimed that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have carved out spheres of influence for themselves and agreed to respect them," he said. "This sort of agreement, if it existed, would mean that the U.S. could do anything it wanted in its sphere, which includes the Dominican Republic, while the U.S.S.R. would have a free hand in its sphere, which includes Eastern Europe," he said...
...chastened Spiro Agnew set out last week to project the image of philosopher-statesman. With ego-altering assistance from Stephen Hess, a polished speechwriter assigned to him from Nixon headquarters, the Republican vice-presidential nominee sounded restrained, deliberate and at times downright dull. His press conferences, noted one aide, "are guaranteed not to make news...
...Texas' El Paso branch; another took up the cudgels for a long-neglected tribe of Indians. As usual, both stories had been largely ignored by the daily Texas press. So was the Observer's inside account of the editorial revolt and shake-up at the Austin American-Statesman, where pinchpenny management refused to replate for another edition on the night of Robert Kennedy's death...