Word: candidness
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...skeptical scrutiny. Most of his fellow Republicans, though impressed by the actor's runaway victory in California's G.O.P. gubernatorial primary (TIME, June 17), were either unaware or dubious of Rea gan's move toward the center since he supported Goldwater in 1964. In a candid, eloquent speech before the National Press Club, the newcomer left no doubt of his present views...
...President's reluctance to speak more forthrightly prompted G.O.P. Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen and House Leader Gerald Ford to ask last week: "Mr. President, what can we believe?" With unusual asperity, Dirksen faulted Johnson for failing to be "candid or consistently credible" on Viet Nam. What is needed, he said, is a bipartisan committee to examine U.S. policy so that Republicans "will be better able to provide that unqualified support so necessary to the winning of a swift, secure and honorable peace." In fact, virtually all Americans might be convinced of that necessity if they were kept honestly...
...former resident of Thailand, I commend TIME'S candid, comprehensive and wholly truthful cover story on Siam [June...
Obviously, a two-day conference in Washington could not manufacture instant panaceas, and the President was only being candid when he told the assembly: "Do not expect from me, or any man, a miracle. Do not expect us, even together, to right in one year or four all that took centuries to make wrong." Hubert Humphrey recounted the Negro's progress in recent years but also stressed the difficulties of living up to the conference's high-flown name: "To Fulfill These Rights." Said the Vice President: "This will be a hard, sometimes unglamorous, frequently frustrating responsibility...
...general board last week, praised the Ministry for serving a much-neglected minority, the Negro poor, and for justifiably keeping pressure on Mississippi leaders to change their feudal society. But the report also criticized the Ministry's failure to work with the local community, its less-than-candid activity reports to the National Council, and its fiscal casualness (1966 spending is $15,000 a month above the allotted budget...