Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senate Republicans grew more discomfited by the day. Robert Dole of Kansas tried to work out an understanding on the Cooper-Church amendment, which would cut off funds for military activity in Cambodia by July 1. Nixon adamantly opposed Cooper-Church. Of the President's attitude, Dole said: "We who have gone to the well a number of times are saying to him that this isn't the time for confrontation [between the White House and the Senate]. It's a time for compromise...
Last week the Cooper-Church measure could have been passed with about 55 votes in its favor. There was no vote, however, because opponents wanted to "discuss the matter at length," as Dole put it. That is a polite phrase for a small, undeclared guerrilla-style filibuster. A vote will take place this week, but only on the preamble. Debate on the amendment's core might go on indefinitely, since it takes a two-thirds vote to impose cloture. The tone that it could take was suggested by Michigan Senator Robert Griffin's remark that the amendment would...
...troops swiftly destroy the sanctuaries and then withdraw into Viet Nam. But if Operation Total Victory runs into trouble, drags on or leads to deeper involvement, more domestic violence seems inevitable, with the nation's moral atmosphere becoming increasingly polarized and poisoned. Said Republican Senator Robert Dole, a party loyalist who also keeps a well-trained eye on sentiment back home in Kansas: "If it works, it's a stroke of genius. If it doesn't, he strikes...
...bulk of the war machine if they confine their anti-war activity to the relative isolation of college campuses. Since World War II, however, the government has become increasingly dependent on the intellectual resources of the American university to fuel that machine. The billions of dollars which federal authorities dole out each year to the nation's most eminent scholars to perform war-related research-not to mention the talent they avail themselves of in return-constitute an irreplaceable item on the government's yearly budget...
This scheme also has drawbacks. In addition to being so complicated that only political scientists seem to under stand it fully, the Dole-Eagleton amendment, like the Electoral College, violates the principle of one-man, one-vote in favor of geographical balance...