Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Francis Powers appears to have altered Nathan Male's famous quotation, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country...
Powers' version seems to be: "I regret I have but one country to give for my life...
...Lieut. Colonel Robert Gayre, chief of Clan Gayre. "Macmillan only remembers he is a Scot when he goes to the U.S., where Scots are popular. In England he wears his old Etonian tie." Adds Edinburgh Royal High School's Rector David Imrie with a mixture of pride and regret: "Our best commodity for export has always been our brains...
Agriculture: Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (whom Richard Nixon regards as a heavy political burden) has been "forthright and courageous in trying to get enacted into legislation plans and programs that I think are correct." For Ike to regret having kept Benson on the job "would be almost a betrayal of my own views...
...said there were two conditions for continuing [the summit conference]. One, that we apologize. I think that that might have been possible to do; and that second, we try those responsible for the flight. We could not do that ... If he had merely asked that the U.S. should express regret, then that would have been a reasonable term...