Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your recent snide remarks about Ike's "vacations" are in poor taste. As Uncle Lem over in Vermont said: "When I go to Florida, I don't take the cows with me, and I can forget all about the chores. That feller in Washington can't seem to ever be able to do likewise...
...Forget." But the Senate balance is much too close and much too flexible for Lyndon Johnson to get anywhere just by confining his attentions to Democrats. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas once told him: "No leader is worth his salt unless he has friends on both sides of the aisle." Lyndon Johnson...
...increases, Frank Carlson, in charge of the bill for the Republican Administration, had an important appointment in home-state Kansas. He asked Johnson if the Senate could meet early and leave early so that he could catch his plane. Johnson agreed. "Thanks," said Frank Carlson. "I won't forget that." He won't, either...
...words before sentence was passed, said: "The truth is that I love my country; I want to see it free. And it is for this, and this alone, that you have tortured me and are going to condemn me to death. But when you kill us. do not forget that you are killing your own country's tradition of liberty, staining its honor, and endangering its future." The court sentenced her to death...
...Russians continue theirs. Said Hailsham: "Within the last week or two, I understand, [the Russians] have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front in this race, we should not forget that our tests are more important to us than theirs are to them." Two Kinds of Fission. But nearly every political poll shows the Tories trailing Labor in popularity, and odds are that after the next general election, Britain will have a Labor government. Wrote London's conservative Daily Telegraph last...