Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberalism of the Congress leaves the President in a felicitous position. Lyndon Johnson, unlike John F. Kennedy, will not often have to expend his political capital in leading liberal assaults in Congress. The President can have the advantages of appealing to a national consensus and the assurances that the Congress will enact his liberal program...
Whether India's new leader or anyone, can cope with the nation's manifold problems at home and its external dangers, especially from Red China, cannot be foreseen. Shastri, at least, can be depended on to expend his life willingly, if necessary. As a top Indian leader said last week, "After Nehru, we had no giant. So we turned to a man more like Gandhi, with the softness of silk and yet the hardness of steel...
...accept this challenge if he wanted to. He could make foreign aid an essential part of his political program instead of leaving it in the no-man's-land of "bipartisan foreign policy." Foreign policy is not bipartisan in an election year, and if Johnson would be willing to expend a little of his already tremendous reserve of public support and Congressional good will, he could get a workable aid program through Congress. But to do so he would have to stop conceding every point before the contest even begins. A few judicious pats on the right Congressional elbows, combined...
...hamstrung, the foreign aid authorization bill finally passed the U.S. Senate by a vote of 63 to 17. Missing was some $800 million from the Administration's request of $4.5 billion. Added was a spate of specified restrictions as to how, and for what reasons, the Administration could expend foreign aid funds...
...were producing new materials, machines, instruments, methods of measurement and computation. And no matter how well they did, they could be sure that they would soon be called on to do better. In his anxious assault on space, man has only begun to imagine how much effort he must expend, or how far that effort may take...