Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor has written eight books, 32 articles, 54 book reviews and 35 letters to the editor. He has also provided eight introductions to books by other authors, delivered scores of major lectures, and composed numerous drafts for major speeches by such luminaries as Lyndon Johnson and John, Robert and Edward Kennedy (Gaibraith's pen, for example, was responsible for the lines in J.F.K.'s Inaugural...
...Presidential. Last March, the Marshall Commission recommended a random-selection draft system, as did President Johnson four days later in the Selective Service legislation he sent to Congress. Senator Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was initially opposed to the measure, but Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) convinced him of its merits. The bill the Senate passed allowed the President to institute a lottery on his own initiative without consulting Congress...
...House, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), the committee's senior Democratic member, were opposed from the start and held fast. It is common knowledge in Washington that both men bitterly dislike Defense Secretary McNamara and were loath to support any reform so close to his heart. Despite their opposition, the House bill was only slightly more restrictive than the Senate's, providing for Presidential institution of a lottery only after a 60-day notice period during which Congress could act to veto...
...credited with reviving Pontiac's fortunes when he headed that division from 1956 to 1961. Though the official line was that Knudsen wanted "to pursue personal interests," he was known to be disappointed by G.M.'s decision last fall to give the corporate presidency to Edward N. Cole...
...John Kilbride, 12, died Nov. 23, 1963; Lesley Ann Downey, 10, died Dec. 26, 1964; Edward Evans, 17, died...