Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successfully opposed the President whenever Kennedy played obvious partisan politics. Prime examples were the Republican votes that defeated Kennedy's medicare program and the Administration attempt to set up a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs (which was to be headed by a Negro). Democrat Kennedy is fond of blaming Republicans for the failures of the New Frontier's programs in the current Congress. But there is another side to that coin. It has been only with Republican votes that the Ad ministration has achieved any wins at all. The most recent instance was Kennedy's proposal...
Kennedy is fond of shrugging this fact off by lumping Southern Democrats with Republicans as members of the irresponsible opposition. This ignores a couple of the political facts of life: 1) a lot of non-Southern Democrats have voted against Kennedy programs, and 2) the South remains the stronghold of the Democratic Party; without that region Kennedy would never have become President...
Back to Caesar. The cloture vote came hard to Senators fond of tracing the history of the legislative filibuster back to ancient Rome, where an eloquent praetor named Julius Caesar tried (unsuccessfully) to talk to death a measure ordering the execution of Catiline's coconspirators...
...Harry Byrd is rather fond of young Jack Kennedy. "He's a very attractive person," says the Senator from Virginia. "He's got ability, no doubt about that." The President of the U.S. returns the compliment-in a way. "You know," he has said, "Harry Byrd is the most gracious person you'd want to meet. But does he give us fits...
...part of his life, whether he has failed to be the model English historian. Watson's short-coming, as his professional eye sees it, is that he has always been interested in a healthy number of non-historical subjects. "I like talking, I like teaching, but I'm not fond of writing," he admits. "I like doing things; I even like a bit of power...