Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While a President's impact on a midterm election is always hard to assess, Johnson could hardly absolve himself of blame for the Democrats' reverses. His performance the week before the elections was probably the least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage...
...good democrat and a tireless advocate of Franco-German friendship. That seemed good enough for most Germans. Both opposition parties pledged not to attack him for the Nazi ties. The German press seemed to agree with the mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung that "Kiesinger has to blame himself for nothing more than youthful error...
...finds himself wrestling an angel. As for Christie, the picture strongly supports the widely held suspicion that this actress cannot actually act. Though she plays two women of diametrically divergent dispositions, they seem in her portrayal to differ only in their hairdos. But maybe Truffaut is partly to blame...
...only outdone in its vacuousness by the questions asked and the jeers which denied him the opportunity to respond. The left was given a spark and it hurriedly suffocated it with that barrage of rhetoric it so self-righteously castigates the Johnson Administration for spewing. This isn't to blame all those who were in attendance for there were many that were civil...
...Kennedy Institute of Politics, McNamara's host, must share in the blame for Monday's incident...