Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each segment of Government argued with one voice-with, say, the State Department citing political considerations to counterpoint the military contentions of the Pentagon. That has been known to happen. In 1963, after listening to conflicting reports from a general and a diplomat who had just returned from a joint mission to Viet Nam, President Kennedy was moved to inquire: "Have you two gentlemen been in the same country...
...Lyndon Johnson's bedroom, at policymaking luncheons on Tuesdays, in the upstairs dining room of the White House and at meetings of the Cabinet, Clifford pressed his view relentlessly, singlemindedly-and often singlehanded. He was opposed by such experienced, committed experts as Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. He also had to face down the President's enigmatic silences. At stake, he believed, was the survival...
Johnson, who entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a temperature of 101.6, was one of many notables felled by the virus. Others: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Mamie Eisenhower, Senator Edmund Muskie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, and White House National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. Mayors seemed susceptible; Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. and Boston's Kevin White joined Daley on the sick list...
...Viet Nam, knowing that no other course is politically feasible. At his first press conference as Secretary-designate, he expressed the hope that the Viet Nam war would be over within a year. He still favors beefing up the U.S. military machine roughly along the lines advocated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-converting the Navy to nuclear power, giving the Air Force the advanced manned bomber it has been seeking for years, going ahead with the Army's anti-ballistic missile system, modernizing and perhaps expanding the Strategic Air Command's missile arsenal beyond present plans...
...meeting reported was arranged by the Joint Student-Faculty Committee of the Law School to discuss ways and means by which student views could be ascertained on issues that are of interest to students. Two faculty committees now have student groups with which they are actively working and two others would welcome similar arrangements. The work of faculty committees varies widely in the degree to which the interest of students is involved. The problems in selecting interested students and otherwise ascertaining student opinion are extremely complex. As your reporter stated, the meeting was indeed "indecisive." It provided no basis whatever...