Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, if Washington totally embraces the present Saigon government for an indefinite period-or even during the transition phase until elections are held-it may make a settlement with the Communists extremely difficult...
...problems. For activist Democrats, particularly, a cautious Republican Administration seemed to offer an opportunity to make both an independent record and political points. When he ousted Louisiana's Russell Long as Senate Majority Whip in January, Ted Kennedy talked of the Democrats' "obligation to the country to present the best possible programs in keeping with our historic role as the party of progress and change." No such programs have materialized. Kennedy's viewpoint has considerable support, but not among the majority of committee chairmen, who retain much of the legislative power. One Democratic chairman, Carl Perkins...
Under this scheme, a final vote on in stalling the missiles themselves could be deferred until next year without causing significant delay in the present Safe guard schedule. (The first two sites were to be fully operational by early...
...Administration, of course, is giving no public sign of interest in a compromise. It prefers to convey the impression that it can get the present proposal through the Senate; the House would then be no problem. Enough hints are being passed, however, to indicate that at the right moment in the next month or so, the White House and the Pentagon will agree to the modified ABM schedule...
...billion in income taxes to Washington and Albany - but gets back only $3 billion. If the city were a separate state,* it would get to keep a greater proportion of the tax money it ex ports. What is more, it would be freed from legislative control by the present state government, which is often hostile to city demands. At the same time, says Mailer, if he is elected in November, "a small miracle would have happened. At that moment the city would have declared that it had lost faith in the old ways of solving political problems and that...