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With some justification, the report-presented at a press conference by G.O.P. House Leaders Gerald Ford, Melvin Laird, Les Arends, John Rhodes and Charles Goodell-also charges that the ever-deepening U.S. involvement has been accompanied by obfuscation, miscalculation, even "studied deception." However, the Republican dawks could not convincingly square their criticism of U.S. war policy with their insistence that they still support the war. Moreover, in blaming Johnson for U.S. involvement, they glossed over commitments made by his predecessors, including President Eisenhower, and pointedly neglected to mention Congress' 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, in which Republicans and Democrats...
...letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed the lusty laird of Auchinleck from a minor to a major figure in 18th century letters and at the same time multiplied a thousandfold the known facts of his life...
...another personal victory will not satisfy Mel Laird and the other ex-Goldwaterites who are watching Romney. They want a nominee with coattails, and to date Romney has not led a single Republican running mate to victory in a state-wide election. Nor are the Republicans likely to recapture the reapportioned State House or Senate this year. Republicans will probably win back one to three of the four Congressional seats they lost in 1964, but that may not be enough to convince hard-boiled national convention delegates to abandon the more congenial Richard Nixon...
James Stewart, as a grizzly old saddle tramp, saves the ladies from stampedes, seductions and desperadoes. He also delivers them safely to Texas Cattle Baron Brian Keith, who gives the film's liveliest performance as an unsanitary Scottish laird, up to his red beard in the debris of a crumbling ranch fortress that looks like condemned property. Maureen starts tidying up the place, Juliet busies herself with the rancher's neglected son (Don Galloway), while Vindicator is turned out to the open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive...
...Griffin wins, said Laird, "there's no doubt in my mind that Romney will be our 1968 nominee...