Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, in a moment of exasperation, one of Lyndon Johnson's aides used to remark that the President was "more." No matter what he did, said the aide, the President would do it "more" than anybody else. When he was angry, everyone in the White House knew it. When he was charming, the birds would plummet from the trees. When he was rude or boorish, hardly anyone could be ruder or more boorish. And so, in recent weeks, after Johnson decided to be remote and aloof, it is not surprising that he has been more remote and aloof than...
...Nhut Airport. Go's wealth, it was said, came from payoffs by officers who wanted safe sinecures and from his collection of up to $3,400 apiece from wealthy draft dodgers. Go's wife is a poker addict, and Saigon gossips delight in repeating the remark that she made after dropping $8,500 at the table: "I lost a dozen draftees." Moreover, Co presented a constant threat to Ky as a power around whom dissidents could gather...
Vice President Humphrey is quoted as having said. "I don't care what I said, I was misquoted." That is how I feel about the remark attributed to me that the letters received from President Pusey and the National Commission on the draft thanking the law professors for their statement on the student deferment were "perfunctory." These letters were formal acknowledgements and thanks, which is of course all that the occasion called for. Indeed, the letter from the executive director of the Commission went beyond what courtesy required in its warm expression of thanks. Charles Fried Professor...
...That remark was ruled inadmissible evidence in his murder trial. For that matter, a great deal of the murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February...
...late Queen Louise lovingly used to twit the King about his digging enthusiasms. Once, while the royal limousine was inching along a torn-up street in Stockholm, she asked him: "Gusti, have you been busy here lately?" But she was equally proud of his accomplishments, used to remark: "I didn't marry a King. I married a professor." And very like a professor the King still acts, always carrying a pocket magnifying glass and often remarking that if Sweden ever got rid of his crown, he could always go to work in a museum...