Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This election is no different, despite the presence of two politicians who have been brushed by assassinations: John Connally and Ted Kennedy. Connally, who was wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, believes that there is no way a candidate can be made entirely safe. Says an old associate, former L.BJ. Aide George Christian: "Connally just doesn't worry about it. He's come to terms with it." Kennedy's attitude is similar. Last summer a friend tried to talk him out of running. Said the friend: "Somebody's out there waiting for you." Replied Kennedy...
...old friend, Williams Historian James MacGregor Burns, has urged Kennedy to do most of his campaigning from TV and radio stations, newspaper editorial offices and well-policed arenas. Wrote Burns in the New York Times...
...White House staff and the firing of Bella Abzug from a presidential advisory commission. So Carter turned out White House womanpower in full force: Lady Bird Johnson took the podium, as did Lynda Johnson Robb, and Amy Carter tripped in holding the President's granddaughter, ten-month-old Sarah Carter, in her arms. Rosalynn, whose appearances are being curtailed be cause she has seemed too assertive, nonetheless gave a warm welcome: ''The White House belongs to the people, and that means more than half of it belongs to women...
...children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving children: babies so wrinkled they looked like wizened old men. There is no reason on earth why this dreadful situation must continue...
What would be the status of Gaza and the West Bank? I don't know the term for it, but I know there will be two sovereign states in the area: Israel, with the old boundaries, and Jordan, to the east of the river. And in between there is an area that should be under the sovereignty of neither Israel nor Jordan. What I am insisting is that we Israelis should have the right to settle there, that we should not be considered foreigners, and that we should have the right to keep our forces there for our self...