Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...milieu, even his closest rivals for the President's favor have never accused him of using his influence unfairly. One official, who admitted recently to having "goofed one," said that Moyers went in to tell the President about it-without a word about who had actually made the blunder. "Johnson gave him a terrific chewing out," he recalls. "Moyers just stood there and took it and never passed...
...long ago, most U.S. politicians would have paid heed to such fulminations. After all, during the 1958 congressional elections many Republican candidates campaigned on the right-to-work issue, arguing that the union shop was undemocratic. It was a classic blunder. Labor rose up that year, dashed Republican after Republican down to defeat for supporting 14(b), and changed the complexion of the U.S. Congress to a liberal hue that has not faded since...
...President exulted too soon. Last week, thanks to an incredible blunder by Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver, the pro gram was dead. Its demise was hastened by the curiosity of Michigan Republican James Harvey, 43, who found HHFA experts suspiciously reluctant to circulate the regulations covering financial eligibility for rent aid. Harvey demanded a copy and, as a member of the House's housing subcommittee, got one immediately. To his astonishment, Harvey found that under Weaver's HHFA-approved rules relating to the elderly and the handicapped (who could collect up to 70% of their...
Parts of this book have been serialized in 37 newspapers and magazines, and much has already been written about its accounts of such controversial episodes as Kennedy's choice of a Vice President and his blunder at the Bay of Pigs. Even so, those willing to hack through the whole thing, with its forbidding thicket of words (more than 350,000), should find the effort worthwhile. Despite the foliage. Kennedy comes through as an immensely appealing man, one who ''followed Franklin's advice of 'early to bed, early to rise' only when he could...
Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Com mittee: "The West has made about every conceivable blunder in Viet Nam since the time the fighting started over there. But there isn't a way out just now. We are deeply committed, and it's been a growing commitment. We can't leave now without breaking our word, and that would be worst...