Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of style than substance. Eugene McCarthy, who seems a paragon of the New Politics-challenging his party's Establishment, rallying the forces of dissent-is paradoxically conservative in many ways. The wry, witty Minnesotan, like Rockefeller and Nixon, would emphasize state and local responsibilities over federal control, and decentralize the office of the presidency, delegating many more duties to the Cabinet. Indeed, even his antiwar stand links aspects of conservatism with liberalism, appealing to residual isolationist sentiment on the right...
Where gifted men such as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy have been discarded by the President, Fortas has endured. He has never put himself under Johnson's complete control...
...excellent administrator, a quality that should serve him well in his new job. With only one of nine votes, the Chief Justice must lead the court more by persuasion than command. When he agrees with the majority, he assigns the writing of decisions, thus giving himself at least some control over the outcome of the case. He gives his views first in the private conferences in which the Justices discuss cases and, to some extent, determines what cases the court will consider. He also commands the prestige of his office, which can be used to help preserve unity or prevent...
Later, when a listener complained that the military had too much control over the U.S. war effort, he declared: "You don't win wars with social workers"*#151;after which he went on to deliver a paean to social workers. Similarly, when he discussed the war, Humphrey followed a militant line to the effect that "the U.S. should fulfill its commitments" with a sentiment more congenial to doves: "We have tried to do maybe too much in the world." Treading gingerly but using backroom muscle on all factions of the party, Humphrey will hold meetings, inviting Democrats...
...deal with Quebec, Trudeau successfully ran for Parliament in 1965. Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson soon after named him his parliamentary secretary and, in April 1967, appointed him Justice Minister. In that post, Trudeau attracted attention by his courage in steering through Parliament three unpopular measures: stricter gun-control legislation and reforms of harsh laws against abortion and homosexuality. Against critics of the liberalized homosexual law, Trudeau demonstrated his sense of irony. "Are we going to put all sin in the criminal code?" he asked them. "If so, it would be a pretty thick book. The state has no business...