Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest the public be deceived by the Vice-President's verbal gymnastics, I submit the astute commentary on Humphrey expressed by that most perceptive judge of character and analyst of political strategem, William Shakespeare. His warning against Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is remarkably cogent...
...hope that the U.S. will hold a birthday party instead of a wake in the '70s, the Kerner commission offers some cogent proposals. The nation's welfare system must be reformed and upgraded to provide basic sustenance where needed and to discourage the breakup of families. The commission urges creation of 2,000,000 jobs within three years, with remedial training where necessary. That may be an impossible goal, but it would get at the largest single source of criminal raw material-the out-of-school, out-of-work kids. Prekindergarten, primary and secondary education in the slums...
...continued to hammer on the need for immediate ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty; Nixon favors delay. Addressing himself to the issue of crime and violence, Humphrey produced a cogent set of proposals that would provide large-scale federal assistance to state and local authorities in improving not only police forces but judicial and correction services as well...
...Lyndon Johnson who was in control, and he did not seem overly interested in rigging the convention for his Vice President. Each of the 5,611 delegates and alternates received a free copy of To Heal and To Build, a collection of Johnson speeches. In an otherwise cogent keynote speech, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye devoted paragraphs to the President's accomplishments. A Japanese-American who lost his right arm fighting for the U.S. in Italy during World War II, Inouye was particularly attuned to the problems of another U.S. minority, the blacks, "whose aspirations have burst fullblown...
Obviously, there is more to barring the spread of nuclear weapons than the self-interest of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Proliferation complicates the already difficult problem of disarmament and increases the possibilities of technical accidents. Perhaps the most cogent argument for nonproliferation in the view of the non-nuclear states is the high cost of nuclear weapons. The construction of small national nuclear forces would cut heavily into scarce capital needed for economic development...