Word: nay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last October 12, if one is to believe the vice-president of Boston's Retail Trade Board, hordes of starving Bay Staters crossed over into New Hampshire and Connecticut to buy the goods-nay, necessities-which their own state's laws forbade them to purchase. Storekeepers in Hartford had a field day (sales up 34%), while their Massachusetts counterparts sulked at home and watched the parade which (for the nonce) replaced the extravaganza of Filene's Bargain Basement. Presumably these scenes were repeated last Saturday, when once again the Puritan ethic got the better of the spirit of capitalism...
Even apart from the nay-saying counsels from London, Paris, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill, the White House was wary enough on its own. After the damage done to prestige by the bungled invasion of Cuba, the Administration felt that it could not afford to take any risks in Laos. And so, far from debating whether to go into Laos, the NSC discussed how to get out of the embattled kingdom with the least possible embarrassment. The decision to withdraw dismayed Laos' pro-Western neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam. "If Laos goes to the Communists," warned the Bangkok...
...Kennedy bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn swung among Congressmen from Texas to Tennessee, telling them that a Democratic President's prestige was at stake. Other proponents dangled patronage bait, reminded doubting Democrats that Kennedy will soon be awarding 73 new federal judgeships. They also warned that any "nay" voter surely would be branded as "antilabor"-an argument that particularly moved the Democratic co-author of the Landrum-Griffin labor law, Phil Landrum, who yearns to become Governor of Georgia and would like labor's support. Stepping up the pressure, White House Aide Larry O'Brien had in groups...
...House is sensitive about its pocketbook prerogative, and for a while last week the debate was hot and heavy. Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people...
...word from Sparkman would have prevented Senate confirmation, and even without a word, many Northern Senators teetered on the edge of a nay vote. But John Sparkman swallowed his bitter pill, loyally backed the President, and his fellow Senators went along, approving the Meriwether appointment...