Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson reiterated his own determination to do so the night before the Guam conference broke up. Hosting a shrimp-creole dinner at Nimitz House, he told the story of a Vietnamese emissary who was dispatched to Washington in 1873 to seek help from President Grant against the invading French. Grant said no, and the agent sadly headed home. En route, he stopped in Yokohama to visit the U.S. consul, an old friend, and to exchange poems, as was the custom in those parts and times. The final line of the Vietnamese emissary's poem read: "Spiritual companion...
...consensus, I would say that most of the guys here think it's a hot, dirty, stinking war and cannot wait to get home. But they feel that they have a job to do and must do it as well as they can. Does that help...
...Forty-seven of the country's most successful Negroes formed the National Negro Business and Professional Committee and announced that it will raise $1,000,000 a year to subsidize the N.A.A.C.P. legal-defense and educational fund. Individual Negro contributors will be asked to give $1,000 to help the fund represent any citizen, white or colored, in civil rights suits-mostly to implement civil rights legislation of recent years...
Besides being the most ambitious self-help effort ever undertaken by moneyed Negroes, the fund drive represents a subtle repudiation of such radical activists as Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick, who insist on black-only leadership for the rights movement. Like the N.A.A.C.P. proper, the independent N.A.A.C.P. legal-defense and educational fund has always had an integrated directorship...
Things used to be far worse. In 1833, no less a figure than Daniel Webster wrote the president of the Bank of the U.S. that if he wished the Senator's help against an attack on the bank, "it may be well to send the usual retainers." Big businessmen often "bought" themselves Senators by bribing the state legislatures, which at that time elected them, leading Mark Twain to remark: "I think I can say and say with pride that we have legislatures that bring higher prices than anywhere in the world...