Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's action on the F-lll -originally code-named the TFX-refleeted five years of congressional controversy. Almost from its inception the supersonic bi-service jet has been opposed by Arkansas' Democratic Senator John L. McClellan, who calls it a "multibillion-dollar blunder." Largely as a result of McClellan's jeremiads, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's request for $287 million to buy 20 F-lllBs for Navy testing was rudely rejected by the committee, which approved only $147,900,000 for eight of the swing-wing ships. The higher cost per plane includes design changes...
...racing, supper at the Mosbacher household was a pretty lively affair. "Why did it take two minutes to get the spinnaker up?" Papa would demand. "Why did you tack when you did?" Recalls Bus: "He was most sparing with his compliments. If I pulled a really bad blunder, I would arrange to have dinner with a friend. On one or two occasions I stayed the weekend." One of Emil Sr.'s concerns was sportsmanship. "He thought it was terrible to file protests," says Bus, "and he always warned me not to get involved in gamesmanship, which was especially prevalent...
...avoid such a blunder, Congress should pass one of several proposed bills which would curb Stewart and his Congressional allies and which provide that the National Capital Planning Commission, Fine Arts Commission, and architectural profession participate in the planning of all construction in the nation's capital...
...peace is sought and made. Peace requires people that really believe in it--and who have not staked their reputations on conflicting premises. So far as one can tell from the papers if we stop the air attacks we can have negotiations. The air attacks were always the greatest blunder of this war; no one with an understanding of our people would ever have supposed that they would be accepted by thoughtful citizens in the immediate aftermath of an election devoted to proving their recklessness and danger. And the evidence is now in on their lack of military effectiveness...
Volpe's anxiety caused him to make one other incredible blunder. Last week John J. Buckley, deputy chairman of the Republican State Committee, granted a Worcester newspaper an interview in which he outlined Republican plans for increasing their numbers in the state legislature. Aside from suggesting that more candidates would be run and more money would be spent, Buckley predicted that Volpe would appoint some Democratic legislators to important, attractive administration posts to get them out of the legislature. Buckley could have been more discreet, but what he said was not particularly shocking. Democrats and Republicans have been using patronage...