Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President, how I can just push a button to get things done. Why, I spend most of my time kissing somebody's ass." And Johnson roared recently: "Power? The only power I've got is nuclear and I can't use that...
...tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that we're broadcasting from NBC's new Hollywood studios ... a big beautiful building. They tell me it cost more than Mrs. Roosevelt's annual train fee." And the one about the excessive gadgetry in the new cars: "I pushed one button and opened a WPA bridge in Salt Lake City...
Imagine walking through Harvard with a great big red, white and blue LBJ button; you'd probably survive about as long as Eichmann would have had he been stripped naked, branded, and let loose in the streets of Tel Aviv. Think of suggesting to an SDS meeting that a petition be circulated to award Walt W. Rostow an honorary (not electric) chair from Harvard. Then speculate for a minute, about telling your friends in Adams House what it is like to machinegun Viet Cong from a helicopter over the Mekong...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...
...touches one button at her throat, and rigor mortis Slithers into his pockets, making everything there--keys, pen and secret love--stand...