Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rainbow display of his kaleidoscopic personality, Johnson was by turns wryly humorous, cautious, defensive, patriotic and pugnacious. "I don't want any damned Dienbienphu," he warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a White House discussion of Khe Sanh, cross-examining them at great length about the wisdom of defending the isolated outpost. In an extraordinary gesture, apparently designed to alert everyone to the gravity of the situation, Johnson then made each Chief sign a paper stating that he believed Khe Sanh could be defended...
...subcommittee chaired by Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, is pursuing a more cautious line at Harvard. "We hope to be able to achieve a policy in which all seniors could move out," Gill said yesterday, "but this would depend on the numbers. If a great many wanted to move off, on-campus rents would have to go up." This, Gill said, was unacceptable...
...work, pressure mounted swiftly for a retaliatory strike. The Navy, some said, wanted to bomb the Wonsan MIG base. South Korean Premier Chung II Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined by the war in Viet Nam. What may become the biggest engagement of that conflict to date is shaping...
Even at that, the President remained cautious about JOBS prospects. "It's better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all," he told reporters. The same spirit pervaded his other major message of the week: an eleven-page civil rights proposal that contained more rhetoric than innovation. Asking for no new legislation, Johnson concentrated on his major civil rights bills submitted but not passed during the last session: fair juries, fair housing, enforcement powers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and stronger federal protection for those exercising civil rights. As important as anything...
...Cautious Computer. Nearly five hours later, when the cold of space had stabilized the craft's temperature to the point it would be in the vicinity of the moon, LM began a scheduled twelve-minute burn of its 10,000-lb.-thrust descent engine, which was to begin at 10% of its rated power and gradually throttle up to almost full operational power after 26 seconds. The operation was designed to simulate the burn that would put the LM on a trajectory from the moon-orbiting Apollo command ship to the lunar surface. But after only four seconds...