Word: reknit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Those years yielded in time a national unity on matters of foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace in almost runproof harmony. Though it is frayed today by dissent over Viet Nam, Johnson would like nothing better than to reknit the cloth of American purpose. Last week he seized an opportunity to do so. To succeed Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, the President chose Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, a veteran Washington lawyer and presidential confidant who is both loyal to Lyndon and well liked by key Congressmen, a trusted...
Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall...