Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice barely audible over the engines. Johnson, his left hand on a small black Bible, his right held high, repeated firmly: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help...
...white Citizens Councils. Even in such a "closed society," Silver found, the Negro has made some gains-and will make more as he demands and is grudgingly accorded the right to vote. But Mississippi whites themselves have succeeded only in losing freedom. "The white man, determined to defend his way of life at all costs, no longer has freedom of choice in the realm of ideas because they must first be harmonized with the orthodoxy," said Silver...
...rest of us have boys who go into the Army and Navy as privates and ordinary seamen and dig latrines and swab decks, and his scamps go in as lieutenant colonels and majors and spend their time off getting medals in Hollywood ... I took my oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and that's what I'm going to do. And then we're 'letting the soldiers down' when we refuse, are we? Why those bastards! Just a bunch of thimble-riggers, that's what they are, them and that-that...
...pleased and proud of Harvard's suggestion that Wallace debate his views with a member of the faculty of the law school. The CRIMSON anticipated Wallace's refusal to debate and a proposal was made that the invitation be withdrawn. After all, if a man will not intellectually defend his code of action, then there is no reason for him to voice his prejudiced views at one of the country's foremost academic institutions. The final article, which I read of that date, stated that Wallace had absolutely refused debate and Harvard would probably withdraw its invitation...
...Crimson team winds up its season Dec. 7, when it goes to Washington to defend its Frostbite Regatta championship...