Word: cotesworth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis, who seized an opportunity to speak for the country and world when he asked L.B.J. "why" we are in Viet Nam. LISA ALLIOLI Napa, Calif...
...begun auspiciously. Seeking spiritual solace at Bruton Parish in Colonial Williamsburg, the historic Virginia town restored to Revolutionary-era authenticity by the Rockefeller family, Johnson heard a sermon on Viet Nam instead. "There is rather general consensus that what we are doing in Viet Nam is wrong," lectured Rector Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis as the President sat captive in a front pew that had once been occupied by George Washington. "While pledging our loyalty, we ask humbly...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations states that it was said by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when Minister to the French Republic in 1797. A footnote says, "Inscribed on the cenotaph in his memory in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C. What Pinckney really said was more forcible, 'not a damned penny for tribute...