Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Congress sits in lame duck session with seven appropriations bills, and most of President Nixon's major domestic programs, pressure can be applied to the so-called Senate doves to immediately reopen televised Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Vietnam and filibuster until the President gives Congress his assurance the bombing raids will not continue...
Included in this lame duck Congress are five Senate doves who have nothing to lose by leading a filibuster to show their colleagues and the President that the cry for no business as usual applies most directly to them; Goodell, Tydings, Gore, McCarthy and Yarborough have already put their Senate seats on the line in opposition to the war. Dramatic opposition to the President when it can be so effective is only consistent with their higher goals...
...there were at least ten plots and two actual attempts to kill him. Once, on a road near Paris, his black presidential Citroën was riddled with bullets. But De Gaulle and his wife remained sitting erect in the back seat, refusing even to duck. After all, he once wrote: "Adversity attracts the man of character . . . He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility...
...press and staff buses trailing behind. One Secret Service agent, one newsman and one White House staff girl were injured, none seriously. Nixon's longtime secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who had been along in 1958 when the vice-presidential motorcade was mobbed and stoned in Venezuela, shouted: "Duck! It's just like Caracas...
...restore stock to customers of failing brokers, all may be well for investors, though not necessarily for their brokers. The Goodbody furore has improved the bill's chances, but it still could be put aside in an adjournment rush at the end of Congress's lame-duck session. If the S.I.P.C. bill fails and the trouble continues, Wall Street will face a terrifying unknown: What would be the consequences of the failure of a major house whose customers are not protected by anyone in either downtown Manhattan or Washington...