Word: clark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...healthy and seemingly growing stronger. David Lawrence, one of those rare bosses capable of combining a strong party organization scandal-free with a administration, progressive, sat in relatively the Governor's mansion. Richardson Dilworth presided in Philadelphia's city hall continuing the reforms started by Joseph Clark. before he moved on to the Senate. William Green the Elder ran the party in Philadelphia, and on Election Day his well-financed cadres produced the plurality that John F. Kennedy needed to carry the state...
...rock the boat." To be sure, the President has pulled the rug out from under Humphrey every time he has deviated from the Administration's position on the war. Two weeks ago, during a heated meeting of the National Security Council, the President heard Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and then-Ambassador to the United Nations George Ball appeal for greater flexibility. Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi. He argued that 1) Hanoi was in no mood to reciprocate; 2) the enemy would take advantage of such a halt to step up supply convoys...
Laird's motive was to give the impression that any troop reduction would be "in the normal course of events" and would therefore reflect no credit on the Democrats. The Administration quickly denied that any such reduction was envisioned. The U.S., said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is still building up to its authorized level of 549,500, and "we intend to continue...
...Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine America, makes the point that 100 years ago "the Irish were the riot makers of America par excellence...
...amounted to a good cub reporter's try. Sound cameras caught some revealing glimpses and comments of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey as they sat self-consciously before their TV screens during the G.O.P. and Democratic Convention balloting. Reasoner's partner, Mike Wallace, interviewed Attorney General Ramsey Clark for the cover story, "Cops." An overseas segment picked up some pointed remarks on U.S. politics from, among others, British Satirist Malcolm Muggeridge. And Columnist Art Buchwald contributed a miniessay on how journalists size up public opinion (they read each other's copy...