Word: nationalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of men, the elected representatives of the people of America, vote themselves a salary increase of $12,500 and then turn around and cut appropriations directed toward the feeding of the hungry of our nation? America, the richest nation on earth, still votes billions to care for other peoples of the world while our own unfortunates-white, black, Indian and others-suffer. How can these same men go to bed each night with a full stomach in comfortable homes with this on their minds, or don't most of them give a damn...
...Must the leader of a beleaguered nation insist on all the pomp and perquisites of office? Or can she act like a Jewish grandmother, preparing gefilte fish, eating with her chauffeur and maid, baking a cake for a Foreign Ministry party? (See THE WORLD, "Israel's New Premier...
...Should a prosecuting attorney admit that he is beaten when a jury finds the defendant innocent? Or does he have another recourse? (See THE NATION, "Garrison v. the People...
...this time he was already in his seventies, and although he won re-election in 1962, his age was a growing liability in a nation that values youth for its own sake. During Gruening's losing campaigns of 1968, he went to the extreme of taking a swim in the freezing Arctic waters to demonstrate his physical vigor. His age nevertheless appears to have brought on his narrow defeat in the Democratic primary last year...
...LEARNED some things, too. "Perhaps the greatest single lesson a President learns is that America's power to control events in the world is limited." That is why LBJ only sent half a million men to Vietnam and kept the rest at home. He also learned about national defense. "The Soviet Union is the only nation on earth that possesses a destructive force similar to ours. Theirs is some what less in size, but the average human being would not be able to detect the difference in being hit by 30,000 tons of explosive or 15,000 tons...