Word: oughtness
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...realized, was that Dole had no one with him on his plane who could read him the riot act. He had lots of staff but no peers. That was fixed by rotating the designated adult on the plane. "You need someone who can focus his attention on what he ought to be saying," said a Republican Senator's aide, "and can look him in the eye when he falls flat and say, 'Well, that didn't work...
...presenting was a way of searching for an answer. For this, to my mind, was the major flaw in Rev. Peter Gomes' formulations: he merely asserts an answer or solution---ex cathedra--without showing us the interplay of moral and operational steps. In Professor Gomes' view, it ought to be self-evident that the time has arrived (more than one century) for lifting the moral burden of blame and responsibility for several centuries of cruel violations of Blacks' humanity...
...future. It's about America. It's about freedom. It's about family. It's about values." There were, admittedly, a few additions to the familiar litany. "It's about intolerance," Dole said, "which I won't tolerate." And my favorite: "We believe in decency and integrity, and we ought to make them national policy...
...Katherine Triantafillou, Henrietta Davis and I had a meeting," Duehay said. "Katherine had called me, saying that the previous week, when Ken Reeves was voting for other people, we ought to get together...
...working on a speech for Vice President Spiro Agnew that would "tear the scab off the issue of race in this country." In a White House memo, Buchanan argued that "the ship of integration is going down; it is not our ship; it belongs to national liberalism; and we ought not to be aboard." He left the Ford Administration when he didn't get a post he had been hoping for: U.S. ambassador to South Africa...