Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson has no illusions about his ability to reshape and reform U.S. life in four years. Although he was an admirer and a protege of Franklin Roosevelt, he still disparages the zealous young New Dealers who sought sweeping national changes overnight. And one of F.D.R.'s few faults, Johnson believes, was his habit of playing various elements of U.S. society against each other. Johnson seeks accommodation, not conflict...
Only ten months ago, the German Bundestag had voted that German wheat prices would not come down until after 1970. In fact. Chancellor Erhard hoped to reform Germany's outmoded agriculture, and wanted to give in anyway; to do so he needed the excuse of pressure from the French and the U.S. (which wants a common farm policy to enable the E.E.C. to negotiate in the Kennedy Round trade talks). As the pressure mounted, the German delegation at Brussels finally surrendered, enabling the Six to meet De Gaulle's deadline...
Bedtime Reading. By contrast with the P.P.P.'s racist election propaganda, Burnham's campaign focused on such needs as public works projects and agricultural reform. A silk-smooth speaker and one of his country's top criminal attorneys, Burnham earned a law degree with honors at London University, reads himself to sleep in English ("political novels"), French (Lamartine, Corneille), or Latin (Cicero, Tacitus, Catullus). Originally a co-founder of Jagan's P.P.P., Burnham soon soured on Cheddi's Marxist rantings and, fired by his own ambition, set up the anti-Communist P.N.C...
...looking for one," said Hoover. "But I cannot let attacks on the FBI go unchallenged when they are unjustified." He complained that civil rights groups "want us to be bodyguards and to give personal protection, but that is impossible. Our agents cannot be used as instruments for social reform. They are law-enforcement agents. After all that has been written, so few people know what we legally...
...Congressmen who are currently considering committee reforms and rules changes would concentrate Congress could unseat the Mississippi delegation. It would be a drastic reform, but it is time for the House to recognize that Mississippi's districts are boroughs as rotten as old Sarum ever...