Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swore in an old friend, Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks, as director of the U.S. Information Agency, declaring: "We are neither advocates nor defenders of any dogma so fragile or doctrine so frightened as to require propaganda. Truth wears no uniform and bears no flag. But it is the most loyal ally that freedom knows...
...student demonstrations in Saigon, he ordered the Military Security Service to keep close watch over all potential troublemakers. Commanded by Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a hard-drinking northerner who was Ky's deputy as Air Force chief, the military cops can be counted on to be tough-and loyal. "Let them demonstrate, Buddhists, Catholics or anyone else," Ky is reported to have told an aide last week. "I have been waiting for a chance to clobber them...
...more than a decade ago they were known disparagingly in the business world as pirates and flesh peddlers. Company presidents sent them blistering letters, upbraiding them for tempting loyal, longtime employees with offers of other jobs. In recent years, however, riches and respectability have come to the executive recruiters. They now call themselves "executive search consultants," are called upon to help fill executive positions-generally decision-making jobs paying at least $20,000-by 75% of the nation's leading firms...
Hubert remains completely loyal. "You're not going to get any bright ideas from Hubert Humphrey," he says. "If I have some ideas, I give them to Lyndon Johnson. There's no Humphrey program, just the Johnson program. There are no Humphrey people, just Johnson people. And I'm one of them." Which is about all any President can ask of a Vice President...
During the early years of the New Deal, loyal Democrat Stevenson worked as a lawyer for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Federal Alcohol Control Administration. He served as an aide to Navy Secretary Frank Knox during World War II and later wrote of that period: "They used to say that if you worked in wartime Washington, you would get one of three things: galloping frustration, ulcers, or a sense of humor. I guess I got them all, and I also got a great education in war, the world, our Government and my fellow man under every sort of trial...