Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights bill produced by an eleven-member Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Brooklyn's civil righteous Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, who also heads the full Judiciary Committee. That bill went far beyond what the Kennedy Administration had asked-and far beyond what either the House or the Senate would accept...
...hadn't bothered to read, and you can look at what's in them and you can draw up a package containing what's in them and have the President say publicly he's glad to work with Republicans on a bipartisan bill and to accept Republican proposals, and you can put that package forward as a unity bill. You do that, and you'll get Republicans to vote...
...even though the differences were not broad, it would be a bitter pill for Democrat Kennedy to have to accept a Republican civil rights package. But at week's end White House aides were busy trying to draft a compromise package. Still, Judiciary's Senior Republican McCulloch was hopeful. "There is more evidence," said he, "of a desire to write legislation in this field, where legislation is desperately needed, than there has been in a long time. The disposition in both parties to accept responsibility without relation to the partisan issues or benefits involved is better." Added...
Lots of Chuckles. As for Goldwater, he had a somewhat less strenuous week, making his only major appearance in Hartford, Conn. There, he agreed that he would be happy to accept the G.O.P. nomination if it comes his way: "Any man would be a damned liar if he said he wouldn't." With that, the 200-member state Republican committee in Oklahoma shouted through a resolution pledging all 22 of the state's national convention delegates to the Senator...
Advancing on Manhattan last week to accept the New York Board of Trade "Business Speaks" award, Michigan's Governor George Romney admitted that he had a problem. He wanted to avoid all discussion of himself as a possible candidate for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, he said. But how was that possible...