Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grudging approval the House gave the rat-control bill is any indication, however, both model cities and rent supplements are still in serious trouble; the House may simply refuse to split the difference with the more generous Senate, as is the usual custom. Deeply embarrassed by editorial reaction to the loutish ribaldry that accompanied the vote against the rat bill in July, some Republicans realized that they had bought themselves a huge political liability-who wants to be for rats and against children?-and welcomed a recount. But there is little indication that the House has, in fact, changed...
...obvious, but apprehension was scattered and not taken very seriously. Some Southerners who support Rusk on Viet Nam policy and generally admire him were privately indignant, and at least some of his enemies thought they smelled his undoing. "How could she have done it to him?" was a common reaction in Dixie. On the floors of the House and Senate, however, silence was the rule. Indeed, there had been a far greater outcry over Justice William Douglas' successive (albeit intraracial) marriages than over the Smith-Rusk wedding, which, after all, only indirectly involved a high public official...
...there around the country the kooks and bigots relieved themselves of excess bile at Rusk's expense. An American Nazi Party captain in El Monte, Calif., declared: "I'd probably kill any of my children before I'd let them do such a thing." His reaction was echoed by a respectable businessman lunching at the Westmoreland Country Club in Glenview, Ill.: "If I were Rusk, I'd be inclined to shoot the guy." A grande dame at the Orlando Country Club in Florida gloated: "It will serve the old goat right to have nigger grandbabies...
...graduate student at the University of Miami confessed that he was "just a little relieved to see the bridegroom is so white. I guess it would have been different if he had been a real black buck." Certainly elements of old-style racism tinged the reaction, especially in the South. Many standpatters have argued that the Kennedy and Johnson administrations have wanted nothing so much as the "mongrelization of the races." To them, the Rusks are knowing agents of this conspiracy. Yet the response was muted almost everywhere. Although sex is the most emotional racial bugaboo, an Atlanta advertising...
...North Georgia's Cherokee County (pop. 25,700), where many of Rusk's relatives still live, the reaction was tempered but unmistakably negative. "As far as I'm concerned," said Cousin Harold Rusk, 51, a feed and poultry dealer, "I'd rather people marry somebody of their own race." "But," he added, "that's their business." Cousin Ernest Stone, owner of a service station, was more emphatic: "I think he should've done something about it, not let it get this far. He should've prevented it." With the characteristic concern for manners...