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...Republicans of America have, every right in the world to be disgusted with their gutless, confused and wayward party. Let them nominate a man with foresight, leadership, presidential principles and wisdom-Everett McKinley Dirksen...
...Rockefeller has made pay-as-you-go state spending his hallmark. On that basis, he could now tell the Republican legislators just what they wanted to hear-and, in the process, get in some pretty good cracks at Democrat John Kennedy. Kennedy's fiscal policies, Rocky said, were "gutless." The President's public-works spending programs amounted to a political "slush fund." Like Kennedy, Rockefeller is for a tax cut-in fact, he argued for an immediate slash of $10 billion. But he also wanted drastic reductions in federal spending. Given these, he insisted, the U.S. could show...
...snap" or "Mickey Mouse." By any name, nothing is so beloved by collegians across the land as the course that is almost impossible to fail. No college ever admitted that it had guts; grateful old grads know better. Today, with students brightening and courses tightening, colleges are supposedly more gutless than ever. But are they...
Americans have become so gutless and cowardly that if Florida were invaded from Cuba and Texas from Mexico, we would probably call a 14-nation parley and cede the Southern states to them as long as they didn't cross the Mason-Dixon line...
...himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti-Kennedyite and the capital's most accomplished collector of enemies, found a new one in his erstwhile chum, Wisconsin's Kennedy-leaning Senator William Proxmire. Invading Milwaukee for a speech, Morse lashed out at the "gutless wonders" and "phony liberals" who had voted for "the Kennedy-Landrum-Grifnn labor reform bill" (TIME, Sept. 14). Proxmire hit back: Morse's attack "indicates an unbalanced, arrogant extremism and speaks eloquently for the reform bill we passed." If Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon...