Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the need for action is obvious, Johnson has given no indication that he will support the commission's recommendations with the kind of presidential push needed to transform them into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will...
...from Vietnam is a prerequisite for any real attack on the conditions and attitudes that keep black Americans economically and socially submerged. Here, Kennedy has taken a strong stand. The war, as he sees it, is brutal, wasteful folly. There is no reason to believe that he would not push for a speedy settlement in Southeast Asia. He realizes the costs of Vietnam and has admitted the shortsightedness of the policy his borther pursued before November, 1963. Kennedy knows the lessons of foreign adventurism and military overextension. And his past experience with the Pentagon and State Department means that...
...perhaps the canning of the tomato represents an even more basic need. Perhaps man must simply be continually manipulating his environment, rearranging things, transferring them from one state to another. In this way man receives feedback. It is his way of talking to himself. As we push our carts down the colorful supermarket aisles the products are whispering to us, mumbling the messages we have instructed them...
...overestimated the people's mandate, and both came off badly. The President, as Frankfurter's letters make clear, did not let his friend in on the scheme until it was sprung on the country. But then he enlisted Frankfurter's legal advice as he tried to push it through. Although Frankfurter had misgivings over Roosevelt's political heavyhandedness, he acquiesced. He was convinced that the Court had provoked reprisals by its exercise of judicial power, and in a letter to F.D.R. dated Feb. 7, 1937, he wrote that "means had to be found to save...
...part of the plan. Remember the epigraph: the never spoken words which define our souls. Desire attempts to chart Anastasia Vote's soul, and it must push us into mystery. Avoiding blatant tricks which we can reject as technological fantasy, Hunter mixes a plot to demolish the narrative and its constriction of imagination. He establishes several movements of time to confound each other and us. He builds and then destroys emotions so that just one impression lingers--the silence and unfathomable expression of that strange girl. Who is she? What is the news of this exploration into Romance, into...