Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whirl & Wheedle. Before that, some Northern Democrats, suspecting Johnson of losing interest in liberal legislation, had begun to fume. He seemed overattentive, they thought, to procedural efficiency, party unity, the friendship of fellow Southerners and the ambitions of Lyndon Johnson. When the Democrat-controlled Senate Banking and Currency Committee threw out the Eisenhower Administration's plan to build 35,000 public-housing units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate...
Their dilemma resolves itself in essence into a series of perplexing questions: "Should considerations of personal friendship and the desire to shield friends from public humiliation prevail over the demands of national security?" "Do I as a teacher have greater moral and legal obligations than my fellow citizens?" "Should I accept departures from the historic ideal of due process in apparent questions of national security?" "Have I the right to question the power and motives of a committee which claims to uphold national security...
...reasonably needs to discharge its functions, and that may well include--whether the subject of inquiry be stock exchanges or subversion--testimony from a witness which is derogatory of others, or even which implicates them criminally. And neither before a committee nor in court do considerations of personal friendship or of reluctance to injure other individuals, justify the witness in defying the power of inquiry for the public good...
...article on Marshal Zhukov was most interesting and informative . . . Zhukov's path is thoroughly paved with the maimed and dying soldiers he found so expendable . . . and I believe we would do well to weigh any friendship that holds life and moral obligation so cheaply...
Enemies, including Beverly and Gloria, have grown to like each other through experimental creative altruism. In five recorded cases, this method sometimes included no more than constant friendliness and understanding. During one case, in fact, a friendship grew despite "atrocious remarks" by one subject concerning the other's clothing and personality...