Word: fighting
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...democracy or an idiocracy? We have in President Johnson [Sept. 23] a statesman who is gallantly trying to fight, almost without international support, the battle of the West against Chinese Communism. He is also a politician who knows he must carry a majority of the American "people with him in November if the "Battle of the West" is not to be lost in the ballot boxes of the U.S.A. This is an agonizing situation in which the President needs the support of as many influential persons and media as possible. At this juncture, every man, regardless of party, who agrees...
General Curtis LeMay, who retired in 1965 as Air Force Chief of Staff, last week described this limitation as "the ultimate in military blindness," added that if the "calculated risk" of heavier bombing were to fail, "then we must be prepared to fight Red China." Dwight Eisenhower said that he "would not automatically preclude anything"-including, by implication, nuclear weapons-"that would bring the war to an honorable and successful conclusion...
...Time to Fight." Weltner's opponents charged that he had good reason to resign. Until two weeks ago, he had been easily favored over his Republican challenger, Fletcher Thompson, 41, a handsome but undistinguished state senator. However, Maddox's victory raised the possibility that Atlanta's Negroes and white moderates-the bulk of Weltner's support-would go fishing on election day. Close friends of Weltner's insisted nonetheless that had it not been for the moral issue, he would have stayed in the race, whatever the odds...
Other friends, even while sympathizing with his dilemma, had their doubts about the wisdom of Weltner's move. "My position," said Georgia Congressman James Mackay, a fellow liberal and political ally of Weltner, "is that if there ever was a time to fight for rational leadership in Georgia, it's now." Therefore Mackay decided to stay in the fight...
...Franklin Roosevelt's Securities and Exchange Commission. She started work as a volunteer staffer for the League of Women Voters in the late '30s, gradually shifting to partisan work for the Democrats. By 1948 she was a delegate to the Democratic Convention; in 1952-after a bruising fight -she won a place on the Democratic National Committee, and in 1956 was elected vice chairman. President Ken nedy appointed her a State Department consultant on women's activities, later moved her up to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Advisory Services, a post she held until her promotion this...