Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overwhelming 20-to-5 margin: Mills pronounced it "dead," resurrectible only if the President would make some reasonable proposals to reduce spending. Fortnight ago, in his celebrated "new style" press conference, the President said that Mills and others who had helped to pigeonhole the tax measure would "live to regret...
...that happens, Lyndon Johnson may regret that he did not persuade John Connally to stay on. A heavy turnout for the Republican Party in Johnson's home state in a presidential year would be more than an embarrassment: Johnson could conceivably lose Texas in the national election...
...myself, as the parent of a Harvard undergraduate, the recipient of your singular form letter of November 3, circulated in your capacity as Senior Tutor of Adams House. You begin: "I enclose for your information a copy of a letter that I have just sent to your son. I regret the sternness of its tone." I do not care one way or the other about your tone: be as stern as your conception of yourself requires. I am struck, however, by the quite insufferable insensitivity and stuffiness of your letter. I do regret the sense of moral superiority that produces...
...serious mistake") and on congressional reluctance to enact his proposed 10% surcharge on individual and corporate income taxes. Singling out House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, Wisconsin Republican John Byrnes and Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he declared: "They will live to regret the day when they made that decision [to bottle up the tax bill], because it is a dangerous decision. It is an unwise decision." Raising taxes is an unpopular move, but "we should do it" and eventually "Congress will do it." Will he run again? "I will cross that bridge when...
Failure & Regret. The break became public in 1940, when Roosevelt began to flirt with a third term. Garner unhitched himself, offered his own name in opposition, was crushed, swore in Henry Wallace as Vice President and retired to Uvalde, vowing never again to cross the Potomac...