Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moyers' performance in his new job is largely shaped by his relationship with the President. Johnson gave Moyers' predecessor little leeway. Wary of the presidential temper, Reedy even hesitated to reveal Johnson's traveling plans, much to the annoyance of the White House correspondents. As an intimate of the President, Moyers not only attends staff meetings, he also helps make policy. So he has no trouble fielding questions about major matters at his twice-a-day briefings...
...Edmond's lineage. Crowed Peyrefitte: "This time the Rothschilds have been beaten by the mind, by literature. They thought they were strong enough to win this one because they had Pompidou. At least this proves that the government is still honest." And that authors have a lot of leeway...
...Foreiqn Leeway. Zemel v. Rusk produced three sharp dissenters (alt in the Aptheker majority). Justice William O. Douglas insisted that Americans should be allowed to visit Communist countries in order to understand them. The First Amendment, he said, "presupposes a mature people, not afraid of ideas." Justice Arthur Goldberg argued that Congress in 1926 merely tried to "centralize the issuance of passports," which were once wildly dispensed by U.S. mayors and even notaries. Justice Hugo Black called the 1926 law unconstitutional. Only Congress can make laws "restricting the liberty of our people," said Black...
...same time, the work being done by the American combatants, given a greater but still limited amount of combat leeway, is having its intended effect: it is hiking the price of aggression to the point where Hanoi and Peking obviously are beginning to wonder whether it is worth the cost. Last week even a left-wing French journalist, recently a visitor in North Viet Nam, reported that the Hanoi government was alarmed and astonished by the American stand, that it might be starting to look for a way out of continuing a more and more costly conflict (see THE WORLD...
...many ways, despite other Senators' heavy involvements, it is Dirksen's bill, bearing his handiwork more than anyone else's. Dirksen's 70-odd amendments are less notable for their number than for their thrust. In essence, he has changed the bill so as to allow the states more leeway in controlling their own civil rights conflicts, and to bar possibly overzealous federal officials?such as an Attorney General?from charging in and initiating civil rights suits without first establishing a "pattern" of discrimination. On both sides of the Senate aisle, almost everyone agrees that Dirksen's proposed amendments vastly...