Word: doneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great silent majority" to back his Viet Nam policies and give him more time to carry out his chosen course. Three Presidents before him, said Nixon, had recognized the stakes in Viet Nam, and he did not intend to preside over a U.S. defeat. What he had done, he explained, was to begin "a pursuit for peace on many fronts"-including private proposals for a settlement that he initiated even before taking office, and a personal letter sent to Ho Chi Minh before the North Vietnamese President's death. "No progress whatever has been made," Nixon reported grimly, "except...
...outset, they told Lindsay it could not be done. Pilloried for allegedly caring only about blacks and Manhattan's Beautiful People, the handsome, patrician Lindsay lost the June Republican primary to an obscure state senator, John Marchi. The Democrats nominated their most conservative aspirant, Mario Procaccino, who seemed well suited to lead frustrated middle-income voters against Lindsay's ghetto-oriented liberalism...
...Congress. Clad in what she considers to be her lucky costume-a pale yellow sari and a string of large black beads-she suggested that her deposed backers be reinstated. She refused, however, to reinstate the Syndicate members whom she had dropped from the Cabinet. "Not much was done at this meeting." admitted Nijalingappa. "No formula for unity has emerged...
...came back from the trial prepared to take the consequences," he says, "prepared to be fired, but it's been two and a half weeks now and nothing has happened. I told the news director at the station that I didn't think that what I had done would affect my work." Despite criticism from his colleagues, Oilman adds: "I would do it all over again...
Kadish agree that the very least Hoffman could have done was to turn over the citations to another judge, who would not have been so vulnerable to charges of bias. Or Hoffman could have allowed Seale a lawyer, provided for formal arraignment, trial by jury and other normal criminal safeguards...