Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many citizens, even some who concede the Warren Report's failings, insist there should be no reinvestigation because such a move would impugn the integrity of the Warren Commission's members. But Epstein shows that the Commissioners were hindered in their task primarily by factors beyond their control; thus their integrity need not be called into question by a reinvestigation. Their performance, as manifested in the Warren Report, has already been called into very serious question, and that is obviously a necessary consequence of any new inquiry into the assassination...
Georgia attorney general Arthur B. Bolton said that in a runoff or special election, voters could insist that write-ins be counted. The write-in campaign would probably be better organized than it was Nov. 8. Then a series of indecisive runoff elections might wind up in a total stalemate. "This may require Georgia to abandon its desirable majority system of election," Bolton declared...
Those in Washington now arguing against a buildup to the 750,000 level do not fault Saigon's reasoning. Rather they insist that the fragile South Vietnamese economy, already inflation-plagued, cannot absorb so massive an additional infusion of Americans. "It would be like putting 2,000,000 men in West Germany," says one Defense Department official. What is more, and far more disturbing, is that without calling up the reserves or increasing draft levels, the U.S. military simply does not have that many men available for Viet Nam duty. And there, for the moment, rests the debate, which...
Thirdly, there is the matter of intellectual responsibility: the continuing obligation to analyze policy and insist on a confrontation of opposing viewpoints. It requires no particular political commitment to see that this Administration has been reluctant to confront its critics at any high intellectual level, or even to release some relevant facts. McNamara may not be the man best equipped to represent the current policy in a debate, but, once again, he is its most obvious symbol...
...about current issues within their purview. Ansara believed these arguments in the abstract; and in McNamara's case they had a special persuasiveness. McNamara engendered hatred as a symbol of the Vietnam war; his stiff personal style alienated people even more. Ansara assured Gordon that most SDS members would insist on some sort of demonstration. Nevertheless, he simultaneously pledged to do everything he could to avoid a disruption of the Secretary's private sessions with students. He was not enthralled by the meetings, but neither was he convinced that they were entirely useless. Certainly, they could do no harm...