Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only in what the bill "is going to do for Pennsylvania." But no one could deny that the victory would add another feather to his national cap. Scranton, who once showed even less interest in the vice-presidential nomination than in the No. 1 job, told newsmen he would accept a vice-presidential draft. Of course, he added, he does not think a vice-presidential nominee is drafted, but he might consider the job just the same...
Thomas Mann and Miguel J. Moreno Jr., Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, finally agreed to accept the committee's delicately worded formula for restoring relations. Next day, however, President Johnson abruptly rejected the agreement, leaving the U.S.-Panamanian impasse exactly where it was eleven weeks ago, after the bloody Canal Zone riots...
...stunned and distressed by the turn of events. Its peacemaking committee formally tossed in the towel; only after some urging from the OAS Council did it decide to try, try again. At week's end, Johnson sent a mollifying statement to the OAS reiterating his determination to accept "any solution that is fair." If nothing comes of the gesture, the U.S. seems quite willing to wait until after Panama's May 10 elections, when passions and politics in the isthmus republic should be less heated...
...that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes up the challenge to combat without knowing why: "The fight is on with no holds barred. If you have a reason I'm sure it's a rotten one. . . . .I understand nothing but I accept...
Last year the House Republicans made foreign aid a partisan measure. Ignoring Speaker McCormack's call for a bipartisan approach, they lined up almost to a man behind their leadership in demanding deep cuts in the authorization. Johnson, who has quite a bit of skill at such matters, could accept this challenge if he wanted to. He could make foreign aid an essential part of his political program instead of leaving it in the no-man's-land of "bipartisan foreign policy." Foreign policy is not bipartisan in an election year, and if Johnson would be willing to expend...