Word: prudently
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Like Ike, Johnson has worked at projecting himself as a "President of all the people," excluding no group from his embrace-except, possibly, Goldwater Republicans. "Most people want what you would call a 'prudent progressivism,' " says Johnson. "They want you to march forward, constantly going ahead, but never getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I hope I'm progressive without being radical. I want to be prudent without being reactionary." That is a philosophy that not only straddles the middle but engulfs the edges as well, and most Americans obviously subscribe...
Plucked Rooster. Johnson means to be prudent and cautious, but he also wants to be an activist, "can do" President. Just since he took office, the population of the U.S. has grown by 2,500,000, and the question he asks most often of his idea men is: "How are we going to keep up with the times...
...arrest warrant signed by the commissioner himself. The evidence may be inadmissible at the accused's eventual trial. It may be insufficient for indictment by a federal grand jury, which is the sole indictor under federal law. All a U.S. commissioner really determines is whether it seems more prudent to hold a suspect until the grand jury considers the case than to free...
...furnish materials from the quarries of moral decisions known as the law reports." Asked why no ministers were included among his collaborators, Freund explained: "I don't think there would be any constitutional difficulty about bringing in ministers as consultants. I just thought it would be more prudent, if a board or a city were interested in revising its curriculum, to do it with secular experts...
...prudent investor might argue that Yale is overdue for a "big game," and that Dartmouth is bound to suffer a letdown after beating the Crimson. But late news from New Haven suggests that this is unlikely...