Word: nothingnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Well, nothing irritates working people more than a bunch of rich kids with long hair yelling in the streets. What in the hell are you doing?"
But he is not, and at 58, with the close but bitterly divisive 1968 campaign behind him, Humphrey probably could not run for the presidency again without reducing the party to a shambles, splitting off the younger, activist wings that barely tolerated him last year. ∙EDMUND MUSKIE. In the...
Brinkmanship. Although the Senate vote promised that the 10% surtax will continue to take some fuel out of the country's overheated economy, the compromise can hardly be considered a victory for the Administration. The extension will bring in $5.6 billion. The House-approved Administration bill, which would continue...
The reason for the Administration's near loss was its own legislative brinkmanship. Vice President Spiro Agnew rejected Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's argument that the Democratic offer of a five-month extension was the best the Administration was likely to get. Agnew telephoned President Nixon in...
If it is ever actually assembled, a convention would ostensibly concern itself only with the so-called Dirksen amendment, which has been defeated twice in the Senate. The measure would reverse the court decision and permit election of one house of a bicameral state legislature on a basis other than...