Word: donnybrooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who believe that any President deserves support in pursuing his foreign policy. Dean Acheson, no stranger to criticism of his own foreign policy when he was Harry Truman's Secretary of State, weighed in with the observation that open season on Presidents should be limited to "the quadrennial donnybrook," an Achesonism for presidential elections. Henry Kissinger, the President's chief foreign affairs strategist, told a group of visiting Quakers that the Moratorium is "counterproductive" because it comes at a time when the North Vietnamese are shaping their post-Ho policies. Vice President Spiro Agnew discreetly withdrew from...
...leader were directed toward Richard Nixon, as the President met privately with dyspeptic party chiefs last week. The subject, of course, was Nixon's candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, South Carolina Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr., who was suddenly the center of an old-fashioned political donnybrook threatening to divide the Republicans, delight the Democrats and tarnish the President. All week long Washington was roiled by rumors, as Congressmen and Senators conferred with one another and the Administration, counted votes and then counted them again, examined the facts, their consciences, read their constituents' mail and weighed...
...that day. Jan Beick, whose modest café rang up impressive sales of $150 Friday night, estimated his damage at $2,000 on Saturday morning. The zapped Zappians could at least console themselves that next year's rites of spring may be visited on another community. How about Donnybrook...
...vying for the job in a race that one of the candidates has likened to a cavalry charge. Agnew, returning last week from a Caribbean holiday and a visit with President Johnson in Washington, declared that he planned to steer clear, "as far as possible," of the impending donnybrook. Even Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Maryland native, has been suggested as a possibility, but the Kennedy brother-in-law categorically disclaims interest. There are few Maryland Democrats who can honestly do the same. House Majority Leader Tom Lowe, for instance, is a close friend of Mandel...
...Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering. "It's a real Donnybrook," Humphrey declared with characteristic ebullience. Yet the grin was grim. Giving endless thanks to his staff, family and supporters, Humphrey spoke less like a man who still entertained hope than like one who was recounting a heroic foray that had failed...