Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finished, on leave from his post to report on a divisive, hotly debated and unpopular war. He will never be treated as a demigod, as was the charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent, "Mistah Speak-ah, Gen'ral William C. Westmoreland," the tall, tanned soldier held Congress in thrall...
...time being, though, the debate raged at such high-decibel levels that Westmoreland might well have yearned for the less complicated hostilities of the war zone during his visit. Almost from the moment he flew in from Hawaii to an Air Force base near West Point, he was caught in the political crossfire. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright charged that he had been brought back to "shut up" dissent on the war. The New York Post called his trip a "search-and-destroy" mission laid on by the President against the antiwar faction. Complained Minnesota...
...moment, Wallace's strategy is to make headline-grabbing forays. In this he had a successful trip, not because of what he was saying but because everywhere that George went pickets and hecklers were sure to assemble in large, loud numbers. At Syracuse University, he was even burned in effigy the night before he spoke. That, he allowed, was just the kind of "status symbol" he appreciated...
...Nothing sound and lasting can be accomplished by a third-party movement," Romney told his Arkansas audience. "It serves only as a protest of the moment, as all of them have in American history. The way to genuine progress in the South-socially and economically as well as politically-is with a strong two-party system." And, he added, "that means strengthening the Republican Party...
Scores of high-ranking guests attending the funeral of Konrad Adenauer were posing for pictures outside Bonn's Villa Hammerschmidt, the official home of German Presidents. Suddenly a photographer asked Lyndon Johnson to shake hands with Charles de Gaulle. A moment of embarrassed silence. Then Johnson instinctively smiled and reached out his hand. The imperious French President, whose relations with the U.S. have been steadily cooling, did likewise, and the two hands hovered in a brief clasp. The two men had just started to withdraw their hands when West German President Heinrich Lübke, as if alarmed that...