Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wholly in sympathy with McNamara's gradualist increase in military pressure on North Viet Nam. Wheeler agrees with the theory of flexible or graduated response to aggression, but believes that the restraints the U.S. has imposed on its war effort have unnecessarily blunted its potential impact. "You either fight a guerrilla war or a limited war or a tactical nuclear war or a full-scale nuclear war," says a member of the Joint Staff who reflects Wheeler's overall views...
...York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy opened the exchange in Manhattan with a withering attack on welfare as a system that "broke down 30 years ago" and is no longer of any real use in the fight to erase poverty. "We have created a welfare system which aids only a fourth of those who are poor, which forces men to leave their families so that public assistance can be obtained, which has created a dependence on their fellow citizens that is degrading and distasteful to giver and receiver alike," said Bobby. "We have created a system of handouts...
...those who complain that this is too much money, continued Johnson, "I would like to suggest that we cannot logically oppose the effects of poverty and the efforts to relieve them. We can not abhor the disease and then fight the cure." He also went out of his way to compliment the "able and inspiring" Sargent Shriver, the antipoverty czar. Besides having to endure indirect criticism from Brother-in-Law Bobby, Shriver has had his budget requests cut sharply, and faces a Republican campaign to disband his Office of Economic Opportunity entirely...
Look What I've Done. Reagan has already pledged neutrality in the event of a primary fight, and support of the party's senatorial candidate in the general election. "If I were Governor," says Kuchel, "I would do the same thing." More to the point, some of Reagan's friends have been discouraging ultraconservative Max Rafferty, the state superintendent of public instruction, from challenging Kuchel...
...Grace and it was easy for me because she could never get off of her one note. But Grace has a much stronger voice and there is something to work with. We compete and keep each other on our toes. Sometimes I'll sing one of her notes and fight her for it. I've gotten a lot better because...