Word: statesmanship
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...praised Bob Dole recently for breaking a legislative logjam and reopening the Federal Government, Gramm, alone among his rivals, rushed a TV spot onto the air that claimed the Senate leader had "caved in" on a balanced budget. Gramm's frontal attack was a bold gamble that Dole's statesmanship, while it wins praise with Americans generally, might bomb with G.O.P. conservatives in the first big presidential contest next month...
...time when everyone was feeling sorry for his position, Truman's resurgent spirit was preparing for a revolution. Utilizing his wit and his statesmanship, he contrived to make the bellicose Congress pass several major bills. As a matter of fact, Truman embarked on an impressive agenda during this period, producing such landmark policy achievements as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan...
...while Nixon's greatest impact as president was his international statesmanship, he deserves credit for his innovations on the domestic front as well. In addition to the welfare reform and universal health care proposals mentioned by the staff, Nixon was the first president to take a stand on the environment, launching the Environmental Protection Agency and supporting the passage of several major pieces of environmental legislation in the early 1970s...
...increase world trade and break international barriers, "what we need today is statesmanship. We need more negotiation and less litigation. We need more politicians," de Pury said...
...President's difficulty in touting his foreign policy record is that there is one. While voters credit him -- with growing reservations -- for the Gulf War and maybe the Middle East peace talks, his statesmanship is afflicted with the same sense of drift and passivity as his domestic agenda. Clinton's & problem is that he is a tabula rasa on which a foreign agenda has yet to be written: Much is promised, but what will he deliver? Choosing between them looks like an act of faith. If there ever is a real debate over national security issues in this campaign...