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...almost expected this (I have noticed, for one thing, that liberals, who profess to be the friends of change, often seem less able to accept it than conservatives). But I did not expect you to fall down on the job quite as badly as you have done...
Loitering for Nuggets. While countries conditioned to a tourist economy admit that the new wave does not wash up much money on the shore, local officials profess not to care. Said the manager of an Athens hotel: "They never dispute the bills, as the Germans and French do, and they're less haughty than the English." Adds a grateful longtime resident of Rome: "They don't gripe like the oldsters do. They are prepared to be adaptable and anxious not to miss a thing." Remarkably enough, they rarely...
Humphrey put the blame not on bill-stalling Southerners, whose "obstructionist tactics were to be expected," but on Senators who profess to support civil rights but are opposed to shutting off the Southerners by cloture. Humphrey demanded that "the Senate start to act like a Senate, and that Senators start to earn their wages, and that Senators abide by the Constitution, which says that a majority shall constitute a quorum to do business...
...Record. No man, not even Lyndon Johnson, can maintain such a pace indefinitely. But the President's doctors, even while recalling that he suffered a heart attack in 1955, profess themselves to be unworried, say that it is probably better to permit such a man to release his boundless energies than to try to bottle them...
...stay of execution, is to make a wise decision in the civil rights controversy, it must understand clearly what is at stake. What we are arguing about is whether we will use the power of the community to secure a fair chance in the competitive system in which we profess to believe for those who are deprived of it through no fault of their own. Until we remove the tyranny of the forced option from their lives, we cannot pretend that our system makes equal opportunity possible. Until then, both the words 'free' and 'equal,' instead of declaring what Herbert...