Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon's requirements were tough. He wanted men of high education and intelligence, such as Phi Beta Kappas or Rhodes scholars, and he wanted men of relative youth-between 35 and 50-who have excelled in their field and who would commit themselves to the President's programs...
...professors within a few years. The system by which both types of appointments are made is the same, and the only distinctions are ones of prestige and of salary. Men of both ranks are guaranteed continuous employment until the age of 66, unless they demonstrate gross professional incompetence or commit flagrant moral or criminal offenses; needless to say, dismissals are unheard of at Harvard...
...criminal defendants) frequently confess out of fear, even though innocent, is among the chief reasons for the court decisions on the right to counsel and the inadmissibility of nonvoluntary confessions." It is a rare occurrence when an innocent person confesses to a crime that he did not commit, and because of the layers of niters built into our system, the production in court of such a false confession would be a rarity among rarities. It is a tragic mistake for TIME to imply that our peace officers frequently scare confessions out of the poor and innocent...
Faced at home and abroad by attacks on his toughening policy toward Viet Nam, President Johnson last week set out to mollify his critics. In a major television speech, he announced that the U.S. is ready for "unconditional discussions" leading toward a Viet Nam settlement, offered to commit the U.S. to a billion-dollar investment toward a vague program for "development" in Southeast Asia. At the same time, but off the screen, he continued to step up the pace of the Vietnamese...
...first principle of American law that guilt is not established by association--men are responsible for the acts that they themselves commit, and not for the acts of their friends, family, or associates. When any person or organization commits or conspires to commit a crime designed to overthrow the established government by force or violence, or to deprive individuals of the rights of American citizens, or to in timidate or oppress persons in the exercise of their constitutional rights, or to set upon and murder innocent citizens, white or black--then such persons can be adequately dealt with under...