Word: leader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grudgingly admitted that Ho Chi Minh was "the only truly national leader that Viet Nam has produced in modern times," but over the question of partition of Viet Nam, you conveniently forgot the 1954 Geneva agreement on Viet Nam. This agreement stipulated that Viet Nam-from the China border to the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula-was one country, that the question of reunification of Viet Nam was to be decided by an election throughout Viet...
...week's activity seem likely to deflect the impending campus protests. Leaders of a combined peace movement claimed spreading support for their plans to stage a nationwide "Moratorium Day" on campuses Oct. 15 and follow it with a two-day demonstration in November, including a march on Washington of 45,000 people, each bearing the name of a war fatality. The organizers say that 400 colleges will participate in the Moratorium Day, with students boycotting classes to hold mass teach-ins, distribute antiwar leaflets in neighborhoods, turn in their draft cards. One peace leader, Dr. Benjamin Spock, dismissed...
...James Buchanan called the presidency "a crown of thorns," and Herbert Hoover pronounced it "a hair shirt." Lyndon Johnson spoke in sepulchral tones of "the awesome burden." There is an article of faith, enshrined in the national mythology, that the leader of the most powerful country on earth must hold the world's most onerous and agonizing job. Knowing how hard the President is working not only reassures Americans, it inspires some in a small way to carry on their own more or less demanding tasks...
...Senate G.O.P. now includes a band of moderates and liberals increasingly disposed to cross party lines to vote with their ideological counterparts on such issues as ABM and civil rights. Last week, as the 43 Republican Senators prepared to select Everett Dirksen's successor as minority leader, the factional lines of stress became clear...
Actually, the Republicans preferred, if possible, to avoid an ideological showdown in this week's voting. For one thing, the minority leader under a Republican President acts more as an executive officer taking orders from the White House than as a commander in his own right. Even so, the liberal-moderates and the conservatives, divided more or less evenly, were guarding their interests...