Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made an effort to indicate my support for the man I thought should have succeeded me. My relations with the Vice President were of a very close nature, and I think no man in that office has ever held such responsibility and fulfilled it so well. I definitely regret not having offered more moral support...
...address to the nation, President Kennedy expressed his regret that it had been necessary to federalize the Mississippi National Guard and to send federal marshals to Oxford. "I deeply regret the steps that were taken, but all other methods, including conciliation, had been tried," he said...
...same ticket with the President. Nothing could be better calculated to drive home the issue of the Government's becoming a citadel for one man's family. Yet that possibility obviously did not bother the Democratic voters of Massachusetts last week. In fact, they could only regret that Old Joe Kennedy had run out of sons...
Boumedienne learned to kill as an urban terrorist and later as a guerrilla in the mountains. At 32 he commanded all the rebel forces in western Algeria. He admits only one regret: the war's fratricidal purges in which, says he, "I had to send thousands of comrades to their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist...
...storm broke, and it wasn't helped any by what Caouette had gone on to say in the magazine: "I admire Mussolini's qualities as a leader and I regret that he was a fascist. I admire in Hitler his economic reforms and I consider that he brought his people out of misery. I regret that he employed for war instead of for peace the ideas which...