Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey would, of course, prefer to satisfy all of the party's rebellious factions and keep them in the fold, particularly the antiwar people. He took a significant step in that direction last week by enlisting two impressive public figures. George Ball resigned...
Ambassador to the U.N. to serve as a foreign policy adviser (see below). Ball's predecessor, Arthur Goldberg, signed on to help direct the Humphrey campaign in New York. Because both men were in varying degrees at odds with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam, their support helped put some daylight between Humphrey and the President. More will be needed before the Vice President can establish himself as his own man. But Humphrey is beginning to score some points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential...
Five months after being named United Nations Ambassador, George Wild-man Ball resigned last week to become Hubert Humphrey's chief foreign-policy adviser. There was immediate speculation that at least part of the reason for his precipitate action was disenchantment with Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policies. Not so. As the President said, Ball's resignation "has nothing to do with public policy but does have something to do with domestic politics." Ball is plainly aghast at how badly Humphrey is faring in the presidential race, and if there is anything that can make him live...
Castigating the Republican as a man "who lamentably lacks" the qualities to be President, Ball said that Nixon might try to escalate the Viet Nam war, has no real convictions, and showed his irresponsibility by the "cynicism" with which he picked his running mate. "The preposterous idea that a fourth-rate hack politician like Agnew might stand within a heartbeat of the presidency," said Ball, "is fantastic and shocking." He added: "I think it is important that people not forget the 'Tricky Dick' that we used to talk about, because there was significance in that phrase...
...Ball, 58, has long been rumored to be Humphrey's first choice for Secretary of State. Once before, in 1966, he resigned from the Johnson Administration. As Under Secretary of State, the department's No. 2 man, he had tired of his losing role as principal opponent to the bombing of North Viet Nam. Eighteen months later, after the President ordered a substantial reduction of the bombing, Ball agreed to return as U.N. ambassador. The high point of his brief tenure-shortest of any U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.-was tongue-lashing the Russians for their Czechoslovakian invasion...