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...election as the great peace keeper, he keeps invoking "national security" as a brake on what he can say. But he has not said all he could, and he has indulged in some imprecision himself. He gets across the notion, for instance, that Goldwater is irresponsible and reckless because he has suggested that NATO's supreme commander ought to be given some sort of contingency authority for using tactical nuclear weapons-at a time when General Lemnitzer, under a delegation of power from Johnson, has just such authority...
...crowd charged into the Equity yard after Mueller, shouting "Murderer!" Men swarmed over the truck cab, shattered the windshield with their bare fists. Inside, Mueller grabbed his pistol, but lawmen fought through, took him into custody and charged him with homicide by reckless conduct...
...supply the moral corrective, while he pictures Lyndon Johnson as too unconcerned with traditional values to be able to restore the country's real strength. Johnson hopes to project himself as the compassionate father of all, mindful of frailty, prudent in all things, as opposed to a heartless, reckless Goldwater...
...founded in 1856." But confronted with the Republican Party's 1964 presidential choice, the Sun-Bulletin ran out of enthusiasm altogether: "We cannot accept the ideas, the philosophy or the purposes of Senator Barry M. Goldwater." The Sun-Bulletin's editorial went on to label Goldwater "a reckless and irresponsible man temperamentally unfitted for the presidency." With that, the paper broke its 108-year record of party loyalty by lining up behind the candidacy of Lyndon Johnson...
Twenty-five minutes after he arrived at the freedom school, Cummings was arrested on charges of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. A charge of obstructing justice was tagged on later when Cummings refused to answer questions until he had the right of counsel...