Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the shouting, the dirty posters, the exhalations of scandal and, yes, the glory of the Class Marshal election have faded away, I feel it is time to make a statement. So many people have asked whether my campaign was a joke or serious that it is my dcty in this terribly verbal community to attempt an answer...
...reason the joke caught on so well, I think, was that it contained a fatal germ of truth. Supporters flocked to the cause with an intuitive enthusiasm--but they were flocking to several different causes...
...case would be obvious, and I most certainly would have gone down in unpublished defeat as just another ambitious politico-journalist. And strangely enough, there were moments in the campaign (which would probably have disgusted some of my most enthusiastic supporters) when I forgot it had originated as a joke and desired election just as much as any other grubby politician...
...ranch was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who flew down to brief him on the latest turns in the perennial Viet Nam crisis. One prominent White House wit held that the mess in Viet Nam was no worse than the mess inside the Republican Party, but the joke really wasn't very funny. The fact is that, for all his domestic achievements, Johnson has not yet fully applied his talents or his energies to dealing with the rest of the world-particularly when compared with Kennedy's decisiveness and imagination in foreign affairs...
...difference is imperceptible except that Tiger is equipped with an ideological fervor so single-mindless that even the Birch Society might suspect he is some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns out, have penetrated the British delegation, and so, in his inexorable way, does Tiger...