Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoothest confirmation hearing concerned John Mitchell, Nixon's former law partner and now his Attorney General. The 55-year-old bond expert told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would use electronic devices for "national security and against organized crime." Ramsey Clark, Mitchell's predecessor, had brusquely refused to obey a congressional directive to use wiretapping. Asked if he would mix politics with his work at the Justice Department, Mitchell answered that the 1968 campaign was "my first entry into politics, and I trust it will be my last...
...Nixon becomes the 37th President of a people still bewildered by a year of crises hauntingly reminiscent of those that preceded the Civil War and the Depression. As if verging on a national nervous breakdown, the U.S. in 1968 erupted in ghastly events: assassinations, black riots, student protests, rising crime. America faced a crisis of pluralism: warring groups and individuals refused to pay the price, whether in money or changed attitudes, that might broaden social justice. A decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur seemed to be ending on the defensive, mired in the sheer effort to keep...
...this special Inauguration report, TIME thus focuses primarily on those ills: race, poverty, decaying cities, crime and all the other current burdens on the U.S. mind and spirit. Above all, it seeks to penetrate the biggest mystery in U.S. life today: why has the can-do country become a country that can't? Why can't a nation that commands one-third of the world's wealth wipe out its social problems overnight? Are Americans so angry that they simply fail to see and seize the remarkable opportunities before them...
...material terms at least, the panorama of American progress is stupendous. Poverty, racial injustice and crime rebuke American affluence, but it verges on fantasy to call the U.S. a failed society. No other nation has ever remotely matched the U.S. in both human and material resources. The American problem is almost purely one of logistics and priorities: how to use these resources far more wisely...
Vorenberg said that the center would try to promote collaboration by a variety of disciplines aimed at understanding the causes of crime and strengthening society's methods of dealing with it. He added that there is an urgent need for well-trained personnel in law enforcement agencies, and the center can help devise methods to train them...