Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long after the K-house people tired of nailing cars, and the crew went in for dinner, the booters continued to play--but they would have liked to have played a little bit longer...
John B. Anderson, Illinois Republican and declared presidential candidate, defending his rather low popularity ratings in recent polls: "I'm no longer an asterisk. I've achieved a percentage...
...with Rogers, Laird and Mitchell, the President reaffirmed his decision to proceed with a combined U.S.-South Vietnamese operation against the Fishhook. He noted that the Secretaries of State and Defense had opposed the use of American forces and that Dr. Kissinger was "leaning against" it. (This was no longer true; I had changed my view at least a week earlier. In my opinion Nixon lumped me with his two Cabinet members because he genuinely and generously wanted to shield me against departmental retaliation.) Nixon assured them he would assume full responsibility for the decision...
...cast. The May 2 meeting revealed Hanoi's conviction that it was so close to victory that it no longer needed even the pretense of a negotiation. Our action had to provide a shock that would give the North pause and rally the South...
...begin to arm him for weeks after North Vietnamese troops were ravaging a neutral country. The option of Lon Nol's restoring Cambodia's neutrality did not exist; it had been explicitly rejected by Le Duc Tho on April 4, 1970. And by then Sihanouk was no longer in a position to be neutralist. The real prospect before us, therefore, was exactly what the quoted paragraph describes as the most likely outcome: the reopening of Sihanoukville, a government in Phnom-Penh dominated by Hanoi and reopened sanctuaries now comprising all of eastern Cambodia. Where I differ sharply from...