Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good to say about Democrat Dean Rusk, said of Rogers: "He is a man of unquestioned integrity and ability. Although he has not had extensive experience directly in the field of foreign relations, I feel sure that his common sense and good judgment will serve the country well." Majority Leader Mike Mansfield called Rogers "an excellent choice." Years ago Nixon said of his friend: "He is more cautious than I am as to what ought to be done in most instances. I will take chances and move aggressively sometimes when he would not. This is good, for I know that...
...misgivings, remain ready to assert themselves at every opportunity. On instructions from Parliament, the government officially protested to Moscow the distribution of the slick occupation daily Zpravy; copies have since become scarce, and the paper is expected to vanish altogether in a few weeks. One bearded, fatigue-jacketed student leader said that "action cells" have penetrated every university in the country, and that contact between students and workers is being maintained. At the Kavalier glassworks in Sazava, employees are defiantly going ahead with their scheme to establish a workers' council despite Russia's objections. Says Factory Director Frantisek...
...There's no longer a role for non-violence in the face of police terror" said a leader of the San Francisco student revolt in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...expeditions Turner planned were successful. This gave the blacks a confidence in his intelligence and judgment. His legitimacy as a leader was clearly not dependent on his attachment to the "master" and his own status as a "house nigger." Add to this the fact that the blacks were overawed by his ability and desire to read and we have a somewhat more logical leadership figure than is presented in Mr. Styron's Turner...
...plan to try to dump President Johnson was received as the mad plan of a New York professor-lawyer during the fall of 1967; he is now a Congressman from Long Island whom most "humanist liberals" and experienced political observers like David Halberstam regard as a responsible national leader...