Word: preservationism
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Yet, within these tight restrictions, the U.S. has built and maintained its global system with enormous patience, which Americans are so often accused of lacking, in the fundamental belief that the ultimate American self-interest requires the preservation of freedom wherever possible.
Silver noted that the White Citizens Council is undergoing "a quick and rapid decline." The extremists of the group, he said, are factioning off into the Ku Klux Klan and the Society for the Preservation of the White Race. The moderates have simply stopped paying their dues.
In their brief, they accused a formidable array of Mississippi officials and organizations of a "concerted, planned and organized conspiracy" to deny the Negro his rights. Among the defendants named: Sheriff L. C. Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price of Neshoba County, where three young civil rights workers were murdered...
The House will be far more liberal in the 89th Congress than it was in the 88th. The Senate, liberal enough to approve the entire Kennedy-Johnson program last session, was made slightly more pro-administration by the addition of two Democratic votes and by the substitution of Ross Bass...
Closing the rally, which was sponsored by the Law-Graduate Young Democrats, Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, observed that "meetings of this sort are in many ways an exercise in futility because the unconvinced don't come. But the ritual is good for our souls, and at...