Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arise Dissent Sir: I have as good a sense of humor as the next man, but when you quote me directly as saying that I was not interested in how many Senators came to the preview of Advise and Consent [March 30!, I must respectfully request a correction. I arranged the private showing in Washington and was particularly honored by the great number of Senators and their wives present...
...lying and he knows that I know that he knows that I'm lying." Gene Tierney drew laughs with a shaft aimed at Washington hostesses: "They say any bitch with a million bucks can be the best." After it was over, some Senators offered advice and dissent. Snorted North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan: "I didn't recognize a thing in it.""We're much more complicated than that," said Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy. Growled South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who objected to the movie's scenes dealing with one Senator...
Justice Brennan's majority opinion gives the lower courts no guidelines for defining what a fair apportionment would be; and this omission, taken with the cautious tone of his opinion, shows that the Court shares at least some of the concern that prompted Justice Frankfurter to dissent so vigorously. Frankfurter laid down the 1946 ruling which Federal courts have up to now quoted in refusing to rule on legislative apportionment, and he is still worried that the Court is entering a dangerous political thicket. Certainly the dangers he points out are real, but then so are the out-rages...
When the Air Force presented the same arguments to President Kennedy in January, he flatly rejected them. McNamara contended that the arguments were based more on emotion than on hard facts. He was ready for LeMay's dissent on Capitol Hill-but not for LeMay's charge that the Administration's proposals "might weaken the nation's striking power." Blasting back, McNamara ordered a Pentagon spokesman to explain that the budget includes a $2 billion increase in strategic power as well as additional funds for conventional warfare...
...said that the one-party systems in parts of Africa leave room for some dissent and leave "tribal systems involving consent" intact...