Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blind & Deaf." Much has been made of the disagreements between Washington and Saigon, particularly over the bombing of Haiphong and recognition of Viet Cong representatives at any future peace conference. Actually, the differences matter little. Lyndon Johnson has ruled out the first-for the time being, at least-and Hanoi has made the second academic. More important is the fact that the leaders of the two governments met face to face for the first time and came to understand their mutual aims. Most U.S. officials were convinced that while past Vietnamese leaders might have given short shrift to the social...
...those who question the feasibility of fighting a war and building a nation at the same time, Johnson had singularly acerbic words. "They belong to a group," he said, "that has always been blind to experience and deaf to hope...
...Blind Spot. Bland persistence is the hallmark of the Arkansas Democrat, who was once denounced by Harry Truman as "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b." But though onetime Rhodes Scholar Fulbright, 60, has long been described as an enigma, the trait that has made him a Senate storm center for two decades is not hard to define...
...blind spot has been manifested repeatedly throughout Fulbright's career. In his first Senate speech in 1945, he termed fear of Communism a "powerful prejudice," declared that "the Russian experiment in socialism is scarcely more radical under modern conditions than the Declaration of Independence was in the days of George III." In his 1964 "Old Myths and New Realities" speech, delivered to a nearly empty Senate chamber, Fulbright urged a more pliant policy toward Red China. As for U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, the Senator condemned Washington's "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence...
...cartoonists, it was all a matter of sharp blacks and whites, a picture etched in the vitriol of their trade. Johnson was a cranky old codger blind to criticism and deaf to dissent; he was a foolish tourist taken in by the grass skirts and leis of a Pacific tourist trap...