Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proviso. The President threw down his spending plans like a gauntlet before those who have attacked his Great Society programs. "I have not come here tonight to ask for pleasant luxuries and for idle pleasures," said Johnson. "I have come here to recommend that you bring the most urgent decencies of life to all your fellow Americans." Then he put forth his faith and his warning for the coming session: "I believe that we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Viet Nam. But if there are some who do not believe this, then, in the name...
Despite his optimism in predicting a healthy financial condition for the Federal Government, Johnson added a proviso: "I will not hesitate to return to the Congress for additional appropriations or additional revenues if they are needed." They may be needed if the peace offensive fails and the war worsens in Viet Nam-and the President pulled no punches in detailing the hard realities of that "brutal and bitter conflict...
There was something in the resolution for everyone: for the liberals, the call for suspension of the bombings; for the moderates, the proviso that Hanoi and Peking would have to make concessions too; for the conservatives, the support for American presence in South Vietnam. In the end it passed almost unanimously...
Defensive Proviso. Like many divorced couples, Malaysia and Singapore have been getting on better since the separation than before. Though now independent, Singapore honored its defense commitments by sending half of its two-battalion army to replace a Malaysian detachment in Borneo, thus demolishing whatever prospects Singapore may have had of reconciliation with Indonesia. Singapore's Defense Minister Goh Keng Swee declared: "Our defense is indivisible," and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman clapped him on the back, saying, "We will do or die together." Ministers of the two states are holding a series of meetings on economic cooperation...
What debate there was centered on the bill's capital-punishment proviso. Noting that he would vote against the bill, California Democrat Phillip Burton explained that while he supported the purpose of the law, "my conscience requires that I oppose the imposition of the death penalty even in this most serious of crimes." Against that, North Carolina Democrat Basil Whitener said: "If any of us believe in the death penalty, we certainly should believe in it with reference to a premeditated murder committed on a President of the United States...