Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Agnew does not refer to "Marxists" on campus anymore, he still assures crowds that a Nixon administration will put down by force even the mildest forms of civil disobedience. Predictably, the head of the GOP's ticket uses a softer approach to win applause at rallies. "Remember, I believe in our young people," Richard Nixon says. "They're great. Give 'em a chance." But Nixon accepts Agnew's remarks about protests, and the clear warning in his remarks is that any students who disappoint him by disrupting a university deserve to be punished...
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally the mildest of men, was beside himself. "Outrageous!" he stormed. "We are, by our accomplishments, making the Senate look ridiculous, picayune and incompetent to handle the business of the people." The problem, really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber ground to a halt several times. At one point the Senate went into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole...
Rarely had so many politicians altered their positions so radically and so swiftly. As mail cascaded into their Capitol Hill offices, Senators and Representatives who had long opposed even the mildest gun-control legislation nimbly switched sides. "Times change," said Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska, once Capitol Hill's strongest opponent of controls, "and sometimes they change rapidly...
...this score, the past behavior of the North Vietnamese gives little cause for American optimism. And the Chinese, who participated in the Laos talks in 1962, will probably continue to resist America's mildest efforts to bring stability at last to Indochina. Thus, any agreement on frontiers produced by peace talks would have to be backed up by some sort of international guarantee--a historically fragile device...
...attacks, in particular, wounded the President. New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, among the mildest, most even-tempered of men, lit into Johnson for his "misuse" and "perversion" of the Tonkin Gulf resolution, accusing him of having acted in a "highly irresponsible manner" and of having "squandered his credibility...