Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galbraith called the President last Thursday, urging him to "do everything possible" to protect Papandreou's life. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Under Secretary of State, relayed the President's assurances to Galbraith later that day. Galbraith said that "the President had told [Katzenbach]...to tell me to assure associates of Mr. Papandreou that he [the President] was instructing the State Department to intercede...
...should protect what Justice Brandeis called the right most valued by civilized men--the right of privacy. We should outlaw all wiretapping, public and private, wherever and whenever it occurs, except when the security of this nation itself is at stake--and only then with the strictest of government safeguards. And we should exercise the full reach of our constitutional powers to outlaw electronic bugging and snooping...
...Robert Kennedy over who was to blame for the bugging. No matter which of these men--the head of the FBI or the former Attorney General -- actually ordered the eavesdropping, the important facts remains that he did it in violation of the laws he had sworn to preserve, protect and defend. This is the widespread assumption within the Justice Department -- that the Machiavellian concept of the end jusfying the means holds in the pursuit of criminals and subversives--and it is doubtful that the President's Right of Privacy Bill would do much to change...
...ironic! One convicted murderer is executed [April 21]-the first in a year-for killing a policeman doing his duty to protect the public, and tear-stained protesters mourn, an Episcopal bishop asks that church bells be tolled to show penitence for this "legal murder," and the American Civil Liberties Union charges that this is cruel and unusual punishment. In this same period of time, how many innocent people lost their lives through the actions of criminals who feel they have the right to rape, mug, steal and kill without consideration of what happens to their victims and without acknowledging...
...something as well. Wallace showered his encomiums on God, states' rights, victory in Viet Nam and, of course, himself. He will probably run for President on a third-party ticket, he said, because all the other potential candidates are too liberal. The promises of conventional conservatives to protect state and local governments from the bogeymen in Washington will not do, Wallace insisted. Said he: "They've got to put the hay down where the goats...