Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats who clamor for change do not have to change parties. Humphrey must also buck the widespread reaction against student protests, the militant assertion of Negro rights and other sources of domestic strife. "There may be a tendency to conservatism in the country right now," he acknowledges. "If you let the country move that way, it will. I have no intention of letting it." If he means it, and at the risk of being punished by this trend, Humphrey is clearly seeking his natural ground to Nixon's left...
...issue in the early-morning hours when practically nobody would be watching TV. But the dissidents raised a tremendous ruckus. "Let's go home, let's go home!" they roared. Convention Chairman Carl Albert seemed at a loss. Finally, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley drew a finger across his throat and Albert got the message. He cut the fuss off by adjourning the meeting...
...nearly unfathomable blend of intellect, humor, humility and arrogance. Always he was his own man. When he was asked whether he would make a good President, he answered: "I am willing to be President. I think I would be an adequate President. I really don't want to let you believe that I'm carrying the whole burden for the country. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really...
...tell the folks back home I'll soon be comin' , And don't let 'em know I never will be free . . . be free...
Suspicion and hostility run as deep as ever between the Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. But the two populations have developed a working coexistence that has been one of the small comforts of the Arab-Israeli deadlock. Thanks to Is rael's live-and-let-live occupation policy, the two communities have been awk ward, but relatively peaceable neighbors since...