Word: esteeming
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...more than the double risk of a young and mixed marriage when they exchanged rings and vows. The wedding bells rang also for Dean Rusk. Protocol makes the Secretary of State No. 1 in the President's Cabinet, and Lyndon Johnson has made him No. 1 in presidential esteem and trust. Anything that affects Rusk personally also affects the Administration politically. Thus there was credibility to the speculation that Rusk, when informing Johnson of the wedding, offered to resign if the White House considered that necessary...
...first time since Westmoreland was dispatched to Viet Nam more than three years ago that he has come anywhere near public disagreement with his civilian bosses. Concerned, the President called him to the White House for a harmony session. With McNamara present, he assured Westmoreland of his continued esteem and told him he would send as many troops as was feasible...
...popular, some worry because every new ecumenical venture invariably seeks out the same familiar names. Methodist Albert Outler of Dallas, who was an observer at the Vatican Council, is the automatic choice of any new Catholic-sponsored organization. Jesuit John Courtney Murray ranks equally high in Protestant esteem. So great is their concern for church unity that these ecumenists are generally reluctant to turn down any serious new offer-and the result is still another amiable interlocking directorate. "It is the thing to do," says one popular Protestant theologian. "If you say no too often, somebody's liable...
...appear as something, to appear as something greater perhaps than one actually was; the desire to play a role for the sake of playing a role, and to be seen by others as playing it; a desire to compel others to associate themselves with the ritual of self-esteem and self-glorification that was now becoming a regular feature of the rhetoric of American public life...
...this, too, was concept, if you will--but concept founded on a rather childish view of world realities--founded also, I suspect, on a certain gratification of our self-esteem, insofar as it was so nice to see ourselves, high-mindedly devoted to the enthronement in international affairs of the principles of a law and orderly behavior, in contrast to the wicked powers of Europe, bent on intrigue, aggrandizement, and various other sorts of wickedness...