Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retained close personal ties with the Kennedys (a fact used to support the argument that McNamara had been canned), and on Monday evening Bobby spent an hour with McNamara at the Pentagon. Next day, as Bobby passed him notes, Ted took the Senate floor to say: "I have heard that it is not a question of his having submitted his resignation." He went on to ask for the facts while Kennedy aides kept feeding misinformation into Washington's ever-ready fantasy factory...
Recently Johnson was heard to acknowledge that "McNamara has made some mistakes." One of these, in Johnson's opinion, was the 37-day bombing pause in the winter of 1965-66, which McNamara advocated over the President's misgivings. Yet neither the calculated gamble of the bombing pause -an attempt to induce negotiations with Hanoi-nor his increasingly obvious reservations about the air war against North Viet Nam made McNamara a dove. On the contrary, he was involved in every major U.S. move in Asia, and his voice-still being heard in the White House last week...
McCarthy's campaign is well-financed and it should become well-organized. Persons of all shades of dovish opinion finally have a figure to rally around. They have an opportunity and an obligation to work for him, and make their voices heard in a politically effective manner...
Though both proposals made in the RUS constitution are probably desirable, a head-on collision between students and Administration could only have destructive effects. Radcliffe students have a far greater chance of being heard if they continue to talk to the administration in modulated tones than if they shout defiance, or even turn their backs on the administration completely...
...scholars had heard of this scroll in Qumran, Jordan, near the Dead Sea, and with its 18 foot Hebrew text they began to unravel Biblical history...