Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he left, Nixon said: "I know you want to get the war over. Sure you came here to demonstrate and shout your slogans on the ellipse. That's all right. Just keep it peaceful. Have a good time in Washington, and don't go away bitter...
...have not yet reached a decision on what to do," Brooke said. "Coupled with my idealism is a bitter pragmatism, gentlemen. I know I can't feed this to the students, though. What would you suggest...
...policy, even among those Americans who feel that the war must be continued until it is won. Even the hawks were muted. At best there was a trust that Nixon must know what he is doing. At worst, there was the feeling summed up in the bitter comment of a NASA official in Houston: "I guess Nixon wanted...
...night after Nixon's address, Lyndon Johnson made his first speech since he left the White House. At a Cook County fund-raising dinner in Chicago, L.B.J. recited some of the bitter political wisdom he accumulated when it was "Johnson's war": "This nation can only have one President at a time. I genuinely believe that it hurts our country and every citizen for America to ever present an image of a divided land...
...young couple (Louise Ober and Mark Jenkins) are simple and skilled enough to give the story some credence, but it is John McLiam as the bitter patriarch who grants it soul. It is a mark of his intelligence that he makes his tilted, villainous part understandable, and astonishingly sympathetic...