Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause for his decision. The world already knew that the U.S. had sent the anti-Castro Cubans into the Bay of Pigs and thus bore a heavy responsibility for protecting their lives and assuring their freedom. Kennedy also judged-and accurately -that many Latin American nations, previously reluctant to admit that Castro was as bad as he is, would be outraged by his callous offer to trade human lives for machines (see THE HEMISPHERE). And so, Kennedy called Eleanor Roosevelt and Reuther, both of whom were fairly obvious candidates for such a committee. Seeking a Republican, he tried a couple...
...make for any of his actions during the weeks of crisis. The Kennedy Administration was to blame, particularly Bobby Kennedy. "He has no idea of conditions here," said Patterson. "God Almighty, what he's trying to do is provoke a civil war. They try and get you to admit you can't or won't guarantee law enforcement, and then they twist your words because the marshals are on the way anyway. That Bobby Kennedy is just treacherous, that's what he is. I don't trust him and he don't trust...
...into his state. If he had kept his mouth shut and accepted his responsibility to maintain law and order, the Freedom Riders would probably have passed through Alabama with little incident-just as they had passed through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. As the Freedom Riders themselves admit, segregation would have returned to Alabama before their bus was out of sight. Says a CORE lawyer: "A trip like this is like hacking your way through the jungle with a machete. After you've gone, the jungle grows right back...
Thank God we have a President who is young enough to try new ideas, mature enough to learn from his mistakes, and courageous enough to admit he was in error and try again with new faith and enthusiasm...
...what it is, and hoarsely tells his neighbors of his knowledge. But the unashamed hilarity that attends the Bogart festival at the Brattle is indicative that the greatest part of the audience is as ignorant of their escape into adolescent self-satisfaction, as they would be unready to admit that flight. For most, Bogey flicks will happily remain as opportunities to relish vicariously the succession of unachieved sexual encounters of Marlowe/Spade/Bogart or to laugh at the thick ankles popular in a heftier age. For any who are made uncomfortable by the realities that crawl slightly under the surface of most...