Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After applauding Lewis, the audience stood, clasping hands, swaying and huming, while a minister gave the final prayer,"...and Lord, give us the courage to do what we know is right, to face the police with their guns and dogs and help our people this year...
...Engel v. Vitale (1962), which struck down the use of a school prayer composed by the New York State Board of Regents. Despite the public furor, says Craig, "no other decision would have been consistent with the dictates of the First Amendment." Far from being hostile to religion, the court simply sustained the long-held U.S. belief that "a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." >Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which overturned a 1942 ruling that indigent defendants in state criminal trials are not necessarily entitled to court-appointed counsel. By its long-held...
Rain spurred the ancient Greeks to sacrifice and prayer, the Indians to dance. Even today, poets find eternity in a single drop. Only women regard the heavens with a cold eye and sight catastrophe in the smallest cloud. No blessing to them, rain is a personal assault on hair and clothes, feet and face, makeup and morale, for which there is no adequate protection. Noah, at least...
...Bill Mauldin, who found Kennedy "inscrutable" and therefore hard to capture, ropes Johnson with ease: "He's scrutable. What he's thinking shows through." The Washington Star's James Berryman, who has harpooned Presidents for 31 years, considers Johnson "the answer to a cartoonist's prayer-with those great, heavy eyebrows, the tremendous darkness around his eyes, that long eagle beak, the short upper lip that makes him look like he doesn't have his uppers in, and the largest ears of anybody outside of a donkey I've ever seen...
White House Aide Bill Moyers, who is a Baptist minister, replied that Johnson did not mean a memorial in concrete and stone, but perhaps a place like the prayer room installed in the Senate when he was a Senator. There the proposal died, and Johnson at least came out of it as a man on comfortable and familiar terms with...