Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidency, he had declared: "I want to do only one thing in this job. I want to unite this country." But a few years later, during a tour of the ranch, he showed some friends a great tree and sadly told them: "This is the tree I expect to be buried under. When my grandchildren see this tree, I want them to think of me as the man who saved Asia and Viet Nam and who did something for the Negroes of this country. Yet I have lost popularity on Viet Nam and on the Negro question." The President...
Freed of his political shackles, Johnson can be expected to move more forcefully than he dared during the years when he was trying to maintain his "big tent" consensus. Congress, for example, can expect a gale of presidential messages, and while the men on Capitol Hill are not notably generous to Presidents whose terms are drawing to a close, they may be spurred to act by a spurt in Johnson's popularity...
Thomas E. Mullen, Manager of Special Merchandising Programs at Eastern, said yesterday that he does not expect the airlines still operating at half fare to pose a threat to the two-thirds programs...
...March 31 President Johnson disclosed a restriction of the bombing raids inside North Vietnam, withdrew from the 1968 Presidential campaign, and hinted that the Vietcong could expect to obtain a share of the ruling power in postwar South Vietnam. Johnson's simultaneous announcement of the three decisions in one nationally broadecasted speech was the first indication to date that the American government had finally resolved to take the diplomatic--rather than punitive--route out of the mess in Vietnam. Undoubtedly the President realized that he had insufficient popular backing to continue the counter-productive escalation of the war. Since escalation...
...philosophy of non-violence he pieced together from Gandhi, Thoreau and others, but in the wholehearted Americanism with which he fought his battles. When an injunction was issued to halt the Memphis sanitation workers' demonstration he planned to lead, King called it a totalitarian measure--the kind one would expect of the Russians or Chinese. "Somewhere I have read," King said, "somewhere I have read of the freedom of assembly...