Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats!" cried McCarthy. "Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party." It was an electrifying speech-and an entirely quixotic gesture...
...HAVE TO SIGN ANYTHING TO VOTE FOR GENE MCCARTHY. As the balloting neared, L.B.J. loyalists began hitting below the belt, offending Hampshiremen's sense of fairness. When McCarthy supported "selective conscientious objection" to the draft, Senator Thomas Mclntyre described him as one who would "honor draft dodgers and deserters." Governor John King declared that any significant vote for McCarthy "would be greeted with cheers in Hanoi." Radio commercials at tacked "peace-at-any-price fuzzy thinkers who say 'Give up the goal, burn your draft card and surrender...
...Sabers. At a Medal of Honor ceremony for Marine Corps Major Robert J. Modrzejewski and 2nd Lieut. John J. McGinty III,* Johnson recalled Roosevelt's reminder five months after Pearl Harbor: "We have had no illusions about the fact that this is a tough job-and a long one." He added: "Responsibility never comes easy. Neither does freedom come free." As for the "open," "undisguised" North Vietnamese aggression, said Johnson, reverting to Abe, "the early pretense of attempting to fool some of the people some of the time had the cloak pulled from around it and even they have...
...leader in every sense. In four years of play against Yale he won eight out of eight singles and doubles matches and played first man on four victorious teams. It came as no surprise that in 1958 Dale Junta won the William J. Bingham Award, Harvard's highest athletic honor...
...responsible to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the ROTC departments are ultimately responsible to the Pentagon. In a University which bans classified research, ROTC offers courses which cannot be taken without a security clearance. In a University where a full professorship is a widely-respected honor, military men become professors on the basis of no more than a recommendation from military...