Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intelligence experts argue that if the Soviets continue their present programs while the U.S. stands pat, there will inexorably come a point when Soviet forces equal and then surpass the U.S. in total numbers of offensive nuclear warheads. That is an updated version of the 1960 missile-gap worry. The problem with it is that neither side can now know the other's intentions concerning additional weaponry...
Republican eyebrows rose when Gerry Van der Heuvel, a journalist and close friend of the Hubert Humphreys, was named Pat Nixon's press secretary. Her former colleagues were even more distressed when press releases were late and uninformative. Now Gerry is moving to Rome as special assistant to U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In her place the First Lady has named Connie Stuart, a pert redhead who at 31 is one of the youngest ever to handle the White House job. Connie met the Nixons last year when her husband, also a presidential staffer, was doing yeoman campaign work around...
About 100 people had shown up for the observance, including teachers, students, nuns and visitors like Pat Wall. They listened intently as Sister Ann Ida Gannon, the school's president, greeted them: "This day will be a failure if most of you let it stop at 4 or 5 o'clock. Today is only a beginning." It was a thoughtful group, not one inclined to swallow any spoon-fed dogmatism. When a bearded teacher began to criticize "our corrupt society" and "our bankrupt electoral system," one woman in the audience objected quietly but firmly that she was there...
Though silent during the discussion, Pat Wall was going through an internal process of decision. Soon a petition was passed around. One woman pointed out that it called for complete and immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops, and refused to sign. She argued that such precipitous action was impractical. When the petition reached Pat, she hesitated, started to pass it along, then got it back and signed...
...country to aid in placement of the unemployed. On the other hand, the President sent to Congress a billion-dollar program to combat hunger, despite Burns' strenuous objections that it was unnecessary and cost too much. To intimates, Burns has characterized Nixon's Urban Affairs adviser Pat Moynihan in one word: "Spender...