Word: lets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peril of sounding unAmerican, let me point out one of the very few pitfalls of democracy. It permits someone like Ross Barnett to govern by popular vote...
...hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely bothered to look out the window. At week's end in San Luis Obispo, Calif., he turned the Marxist cliche around by complaining that the American "authorities" had not let him meet the real people, had kept him under virtual "house arrest...
...about how each had risen from their poorboy origins under their respective capitalist and Communist systems. Skouras scored the best line-"Your country is the greatest monopoly the world has ever known, colossal, colossal"-but Skouras' needling of Khrushchev brought audience cries of "Sit down," "Shut up" and "Let him alone...
...later because this is awfully important to me?" And she said to Khrushchev & Co.: "I do hope you'll enjoy these parts of our picture Can-Can because we very much enjoy the Soviet artists you have sent to this country." After Frank introduced the song Live and Let Live, he said to Khrushchev: "It's a marvelous idea." And as he heard Frank talk, watched Shirley and the chorus girls upend, Khrushchev grinned. Going back over the Disneyland outburst, he said that the studio commissary had been hot, and he had been hotheaded, and he even apologized...
Last week in Chicago, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, a close friend of Nixon's, told a different story. Addressing a convention of We the People, a conservative citizens' organization, Goldwater said: "Let me tell you, Nixon is a conservative. He was as shocked as you were at the invitation to Khrushchev to come to this country." Later, answering a question from the audience, Goldwater elaborated: "I can only relate what the Vice President said to me. He said he was greatly surprised. He had no knowledge of the invitation. He was surprised and disappointed the invitation...