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...give up. With these thoughts the Communists will step up their offensive. Americans, in turn, will be outraged at the enemy's acts of war and lack of humility. The criers will come to stand behind the President and go for a military victory. What politician would refuse an all-out draft campaign? Yes, I think that Lyndon Johnson continues to be the very shrewd politician that he has been for 30 years...
...public-opinion polls will rise considerably as a result of the renunciation. Together, these factors will give him considerable leverage, which he has not had in recent months. And Lyndon Johnson, who above all else craves a favorable verdict from history, will undoubtedly use those levers in a final, all-out effort to solve the two problems that have increasingly bedeviled his presidency?the war in Viet Nam, the racial confrontation at home...
...spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring for an all-out jump. And Beamon is still deciding how far to run before takeoff: he usually favors a run of 134 ft, but both his world records came off runs of 114 ft. Moreover, he cannot be bothered counting strides or placing checkpoints along the runway with the result that...
Sanh went on special alert to mark an ominous anniversary: the 14th year to the day since General Vo Nguyen Giap's initial assault on the French bastion of Dienbienphu. But the day came and went without any North Vietnamese attempt to celebrate with all-out fireworks...
...hesitant to say outright that Wright was cynically used by the American Communist Party to rally Negro support. Yet she makes it quite clear that, although Wright carried a party card, he was too preoccupied with his problems as an artist and his own writing career ever to be an all-out comrade...