Word: ought
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...into Line. To members of Congress, the President let it be known in no uncertain terms that he was getting pretty tired of criticism. The legislators fell all over themselves getting into line. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, who several times in the past had suggested that the U.S. ought to get out of Southeast Asia, now rose to say that the President had acted "as Commander in Chief with great courage, firmness and restraint. President Johnson can be counted upon to continue to work with complete dedication on this problem." Idaho's fuzzy-cheeked Democratic Senator Frank Church...
...columnists, one solemn, one satirical, offered the State Department some policy advice last week that was strangely similar. On his annual CBS-TV interview, Walter Lippmann proposed his solution for attacks on U.S. installations abroad: "I think what we ought to do in a place like Cairo, if they burned down our library, is leave it burned down. Just leave it there. Don't rebuild it, don't clean the street even, and let it stand there as a monument to the thing. I think they'll soon want to clean it up themselves...
...development of Christian education programs. In the last two years council leaders have increasingly taken strong stands on moral issues in politics and economics. The result has been a wave of criticism, and last week, at a General Board meeting in Portland, Ore., council leaders discussed how they ought to respond...
...emphasized the immediacy of the need for a Civil Rights Act directed at the North. "Race riots," he asserted, "are much more imminent in the North than in the South. It's not where you are on an absolute standard," he pointed out, "it's where you think you ought...
...scholars, Neustadt hopes to pour a stream of Fellows and visiting residents. He feels that the Institute ought to have some resident "junior fellows"--young men from journalism or from private life, not career government servants. Then there should be young men who have worked in politics and are likely to embark on elective careers--"the Bill Moyerses who don't happen to be counsel to the President," as Neustadt...