Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August, Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In the present sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster...
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...William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who floor-managed the landmark congressional resolution in 1964 by which the President has authority to take "all necessary steps" to resist aggression in Southeast Asia. Fulbright now confesses that he played "a part that I am not at all proud of at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin. That would have been a good time to have precipitated a debate and re-examination of our involvement...
...have frequently been called a liberal-and I have always been proud of it," Javits continued. "But what I have just said in support of our military operations in Viet Nam finds me obviously at variance with some part of the liberal community, which has at times severely challenged our objectives and policies in South Viet Nam. I have given long and studied consideration to this point of view. But I cannot agree with it. I believe the struggle in Viet Nam is worthy...
With Lyndonesque panache, Kentucky's Governor Edward Breathitt last week signed a state civil rights bill beneath a huge bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln in the capitol rotunda at Frankfort, then handed out 40 pens as mementoes of the occasion. He had reason to be proud...