Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ringing with the same sharp outcries from some liberal Republicans, Dirksen at week's end agreed to try to modify some of his amendments. The fact remained that, to get the support needed to pass the bill, the liberal ma jority will in all likelihood be forced to accept many of Dirksen's proposals. If they persist in an all-or-nothing attitude, they may yet turn a running tide of victory to ironic defeat...
This was bad news to the Democratic leadership. They desperately need Republican votes to impose cloture, and to get those votes they may have to accept Dirksen's amendments. Yet they fear that to do this would be to set off an avalanche of amendment attempts that would, at worst, gut the bill and, at best, protract the battle indefinitely. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said he thought the debate might even last through the national nominating conventions and into the fall...
...them of a new system of rotating the three military staff command positions every 18 months. Getting wind of Reid's maneuver, officers of the powerful air force grew restless, and coup rumors crackled through the capital. Immediately, Reid called in the air force chief of staff-either accept the rotation plan, he put it bluntly, or lose your commission. Reid won the facedown, now boasts: "I am in the driver's seat." No formal announcement was ever made, but state papers now bear Reid's signature as junta president...
...since I should not and cannot, I believe I am ready by God's grace to accept this necessity." Thus Lichtenberger announced his intention of resigning in October as chief spokesman for the nation's 3,500,000 Episcopalians...
...gotten along. There is a vast difference between the two in style, personality and temperment, if not in policy. According to reliable reports, Johnson will choose Kennedy only if political conditions make it imperative. Kennedy may go after the nomination, at least in private. But he will have to accept Johnson's choice. He is young and if he decides to make politics his career, he cannot afford to alienate too many men he might rely on in the future...