Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas Rangers, after facing arrows, guns, and knives for one complete century of incredible carnage, were abolished in 1935. But they survive in song and story, cinema and television as strong silent lawmen who all look like Gary Cooper or Lyndon B. Johnson. They are more factually commemorated by Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Frontier) in this famous volume, republished now (with a foreword by President Johnson) for the first time since 1935. But the facts, though they strongly suggest that the Rangers did not always keep their honor high and clear, nevertheless indicate that the organization at worst...
...think it's possible. We've tried as hard as we can to hit an exact target area on the earth with a man aboard, and with the firing of retro-rockets perfectly timed, pre-tested, and computerized. I got within four miles, and so did Cooper and Conrad. That's good for our purposes, but it's ridiculous as far as military purposes...
...should immediately end the American buildup in the South and halt the bombing of North Viet Nam. Before marching around the White House, leaders of the demonstration-among them Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., Pediatrician Benjamin Spock-expressed their opinions to White House Aide Chester Cooper, and seemed surprised that his response was "less than satisfactory...
While pickets marched, a delegation of leaders conferred for 90 minutes with Chester Cooper, an aide to White House advisor McGeorge Bundy. According to Gottlieb, Cooper reiterated an administration suggestion that those who desired peace write letters to North Vietnam and the Viet Cong asking them to agree to unconditional negotiations...
...Kennedy legend and the Johnson performance need not be adversary. The difference between the two men, says Harvard's Henry Kissinger, is the difference "between a dream and an achievement." Kissinger sees Johnson as being "in the position of Gary Cooper in High Noon. He has a lot of difficult and lonely decisions which even his critics recognize are necessary but hard to face. If he can bring off what he is trying to do, his image will take care of itself." It is probably just as well that Johnson does not have Kennedy's charismatic qualities...