Word: statesmanship
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What Kennedy was planning, though he did not say so in his speech, was a two-step approach: first, tax reduction paying lip service to reform; then, perhaps much later, real reform, sweetened with additional cuts. Concluded the President: "A high order of statesmanship and determination will be required if the possible is not to wait on the perfect. But a nation capable of marshaling these qualities to meet a sudden and dramatic threat to its security is surely equally capable of meeting a creeping and complex threat to our economic vitality...
...most to be remembered-is France's close, new relationship with an old enemy, Germany. Himself a veteran of two wars against les Bodies, and the son of a soldier who was wounded in the war with Prussia, Charles de Gaulle went far beyond the dictates of conventional statesmanship to heal the ancient feud between Gaul and Teuton. On his state visit to West Germany, he went out of his way to wring Germans' hands and bid them Guten Tag. Few Germans who heard him could fail to be moved when De Gaulle cried: "Das deutsche Volk...
KHRUSHCHEV'S offer to remove his missile bases from Cuba if the U.S. would dismantle its missiles in Turkey was a cynical piece of statesmanship. It took shrewd advantage of the frets and feelings expressed by many peace-loving, non-Communist handwringers in the U.S. and other countries. In Philadelphia, for example, Norman Thomas, sometime Socialist Party candidate for President last week paraded outside city hall with a placard proclaiming: NO SOVIET BASE IN CUBA-NO U.S. BASE IN TURKEY...
Washington. Senator Warren G. Magnuson, a skilled politician with no pretensions to statesmanship, should defeat Richard G. Christensen, sometime Lutheran minister making his first try for office...
...Frontiersmen with measured scorn. Said he: "For my part I am tired-terribly tired-of hearing America run down by them, of hearing their brassy and boastful words and watching their bumbling actions. The Washington record of these past 20 months presents a picture of political connivance instead of statesmanship, of selfish grabs for power instead of respect for our concepts of balance in government, of arrogant assertion of Washington infallibility instead of readiness to trust in the wisdom of the American people...