Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he had written a letter to Defense Secretary Tom Gates, asking whether he had rescinded his orders not to spend extra funds ($661,608,000) appropriated by the Congress in addition to the President's request. It was a sly maneuver to get the Democrats off the hook from Kennedy's suggestion that two or three billion dollars should be added to the defense budget during the short session. With that, Lyndon Johnson was off again for a busy weekend of noncampaigning at political rallies in Tennessee and Iowa. His irreverent parting shot as he left...
...Rockefeller insisted on holding the meeting at his own home. "Tell Dick to call me," said Rocky to Brownell. Minutes later, Nixon was on the phone. "Nelson," he said, "I want to go all the way with you on defense and foreign policy. You've got me off the hook" ? meaning that Rockefeller had provided him with an opportunity to ex press his policy differences with the Ad ministration without seeming disloyal to the President...
...lean-to is another miserable failure," noted Boyd on the second day. "We need some kind of food," he wrote on the third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...
...Hook. Johnson's unexpected presence on the Kennedy-Democratic ticket upset a basic assumption of Nixon's campaign strategy. To offset advantages that Kennedy's New England origin and Roman Catholicism will give him in the East, Nixon had hoped to win a clutch of electoral votes in the South, capturing at least the four states-Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-that Dwight Eisenhower carried in both 1952 and 1956. By dimming Nixon's prospects in the South, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket confronted him with a tough problem in electoral-vote arithmetic. Even if Nixon...
...Border States and the South. But when Johnson joined up with Kennedy, Morton's appeal in the South lost much of its value. Morton does not want the vice-presidential nomination anyway, was relieved when he heard the Johnson news on TV. "We're off the hook!" he yelled to his wife...