Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President's campaign biography, a 116-page document called Where He Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro T. Agnew, records that as a boy in Baltimore, he used to help his Greek-born father prepare talks before local groups. "While the Governor's best subject was English," writes Author Ann Pinchot. "this is how he learned to perfect and polish the eloquence and clarity for which he is now known." Alas, it is precisely his prose style that frightens off so many, including some who are sympathetic to his basic message. Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., while concurring...
Cahill was acceptable to both liberal and conservative Republicans, and used his support of Nixon as a party rallying point. Meyner simply failed to unite Democrats or ignite independents. He probably had the best explanation for the proportions of his defeat. "I would suspect," he said on Election Night, "that there is a time when one who seeks public office seeks it one too many times. This apparently was the time...
...often demonstrated, at least subconsciously, a paternalistic attitude toward other nations of the hemisphere. It has tried to direct the internal affairs of other nations to an unseemly degree, thinking, perhaps arrogantly, that it knew what was best for them. The U.S. has talked about partnership, but it has not truly practiced...
...nation journey made by the New York Governor last summer to help the new Nixon Administration reassess and reinvigorate a shaky Latin American policy. Rockefeller's survey trip was beset by anti-American demonstrations and violence. Indeed, some Latin Americans complained that the effort was at best ill-timed, at worst altogether useless...
Rockefeller maintains that the U.S. has "intervened, usually with the best of intentions, in almost every aspect" of its neighbors' economic policies and programs. He notes deep resentment in Latin America over the way in which U.S. aid programs have all too often been "distorted to serve a variety of purposes in the U.S. having nothing to do with the aspirations and interests of its neighbors." Rockefeller feels that the U.S. should press for increased trade within the hemisphere. Doubling present volume by 1976 would be "realistic" but attainable only by revising U.S. quotas and tariffs on such Latin...