Word: reaffirming
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...fighting possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh." Therefore Diem with U.S. backing did not permit these elections to take place in 1956 as provided for by the Geneva accords. Can we then believe that President Johnson's offer to reaffirm old agreements or to strengthen them with new ones is anything less than an attempt to appease the growing chorus of dissent at home and abroad...
...people admitted last year to about 350,000, largely because of full utilization of quotas that now are never met. All these changes, said the President, would amount to a program that "both serves the national interest and continues our traditional ideals. No move could more effectively reaffirm our fundamental belief that a man is to be judged-and judged exclusively-on his worth as a human being...
...every community in the state with a high school large enough to accommodate the lean, quick youngsters that Bud loved to recruit for his Sooner squad. Wilkinson's pitch to the voters has a simple, conservative consistency that has been characterized as "Basic Bud." "We must," says Bud, "reaffirm our faith in the diffusion of government responsibility and the diffusion of powers." He supports the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so important to oil-rich Oklahoma, has reservations about the Civil Rights Act, opposes federal aid to education, favors minimal federal controls in agriculture. To the argument that...
...education. A more substantial number may insist on "not rocking the boat" and suggest that the present program adequately attains these goals, and argue that a further expenditure of time on Gen Ed isn't worth the trouble. Still others may want to harken back to the Redbook and reaffirm even more strongly a faith in the need for training students in the philosophy and history of Western Civilization...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. The Democrats call for "full observance" and "fair, effective enforcement" of the new civil rights law, reaffirm "our belief that lawless disregard for the rights of others is wrong-whether used to deny equal rights or to obtain equal rights," hold that "true democracy of opportunity will not be served by establishing quotas based on the same false distinctions we seek to erase, nor can the effects of prejudice be neutralized by the expedient of preferential practices." Thus the Democrats match the Republicans, who, besides promising "full implementation and faithful execution of the Civil Rights...