Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rigors of the Oval Office But in some respects, a presidential candidate must be above the larger human frailties. Some people will always wonder whether Kennedy, who at best bent and broke under extreme pressure, can stand up to the rigors of the Oval Office. Would his judgment, like his brother's, remain unimpaired through the tension of a Cuban missile crisis? "Can we really trust him if the Russians come over the ice cap?" asked one Washington analyst last week. "Can he make the kind of split-second decisions the astronauts had to make in their landing...
...compares the Kennedy standard as it was passed to him and its present condition. Can he be sure of his own judgment and grit? He himself acknowledged the dilemma last week when he quoted from J.F.K.: "The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul...
...have no choice. The Administration is firmly pledged to do whatever it can-or must-to slow down the nation's economy. President Nixon demonstrated this commitment last week when he ordered federal spending trimmed by $3.5 billion, primarily in non-Vietnamese military programs, in order to keep the budget under the $192.9 ceiling set by Congress. Viewing the surtax as his key weapon against the inflation that in June boosted the consumer price index by six-tenths of 1%, he has made it clear that he is willing to pay a price for its extension. Nixon last year...
...others, sees the Deep South and the border states as a future stronghold of the G.O.P. "Now that the national Democratic Party is becoming the Negro party throughout most of the South," says Phillips, "the alienation of white Wallace voters is likely to persist." He reasons that the G.O.P. must be conservative enough to undercut George Wallace or any third-party leader like...
...Society leadership, would find life within Phillips' G.O.P. untenable, as would many working politicians, including Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller, Hugh Scott, Jacob Javits, Charles Percy, George Romney and Edward Brooke. As they see it, the Phillips type of strategy would split the nation. For them, a Republican majority must be broadened along racial, as well as class, lines. They have demonstrated that Republicans can contend for power successfully without abandoning either the cities or the blacks...