Word: ramseyisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lyndon Johnson's Administration undoubtedly influenced the Nixon men. Johnson resisted the temptation to use the ever more sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment for domestic intelligence. But by the late 1960s he sought desperately for a way to cope with widespread and often simultaneous urban riots. Attorney General Ramsey Clark sent a tough memo to FBI Director...
Vorenberg, a former student of Cox, served as special assistant to the attorney general in 1964-1965 under Robert F. Kennedy '48, Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark. He also served two years as director of the President's Crime Commission...
Others would be people like W.H. Auden, William O. Douglas, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Earl Warren, Lady Bird Johnson, one of the Berrigan brothers, Ramsey Clark, Sissy Farenthold or Joseph Biden, the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
...Douglas Ramsey, 38, was delivering rice to refugees in Hau Nghia province when the Viet Cong grabbed him. The guerrillas, he recalls, turned out to be "almost friendly." As he traveled with them, he noticed that they seemed to know to the minute when the routine of enemy artillery firing would begin and when it would end. After one ambush, Ramsey estimated that they exaggerated the casualties four or five to one in reports to their superiors...
Kept in solitary confinement for six of his seven years' imprisonment, and often locked in leg irons, Ramsey was subjected to frequent indoctrination. He supplied some antiwar statements but they were too ambivalent to be printed or broadcast for propaganda purposes. The opposition that he expressed to the war, he believes, was within "my Constitutional prerogatives as an individual. When I got out, I discovered that the Administration had made many of the changes I was concerned about: the movement from the atmosphere of the Crusades to that of the Congress of Vienna, from religious fanaticism to Metternich...