Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced Abe Fortas's appointment to the Supreme Court only a day after he had told reporters that he had not even begun to consider a successor to Justice Goldberg. An alarming "credibility gap" has arisen: The President and his staff often cannot bring themselves to reply "no comment" when it is clearly appropriate...
...speaking for the entire establishment that Lindsay is challenging when he recalled his 40 years as "sultan, vizier, pasha and emir" of assorted public enterprises. The final frustration for Lindsay came at legislative committee hearings, when Bob Wagner questioned the desirability of a transit czar with the acerbic comment that the official "would need to be Superman and Batman rolled into...
...very strategic piece of land" because of its location opposite the projected fourth house. He declined to say, however, what Radcliffe might build on the site, or to speculate on the chances that the college would actually make the purchase. President Bunting could not be reached for comment...
Other press comment was equally laudatory...
...previously well-elaborated Madisonian and Jeffersonian models for national government. He says that the Hamiltonian President--exemplified by the two Roosevelts--employs heroic-style leadership, intensely personal organization, and the expedient use of power to govern in the face of a disorganized opposition. Though he has a nasty comment or two for some of the historical bases of the Hamiltonian model, he apparently concludes that it is far superior to the limited-government, limited-President Madisonian view (William Howard Taft) or the strictly-majoritarian, party-rule Jeffersonian view (Woodrow Wilson...