Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remark about the fellows being in a "no-man's land" between students and faculty was not intended as a criticism of the program but was in response to a question from your reporter about my participation in graduate student extracurricular organizations...
...resented the recent dominance of the party by Democratic Senators, and feel that they have largely been pushed aside by the McGovern movement. Their spokesman, Arkansas Governor Dale Bumpers, observed dryly that "it would be the gracious thing to do" if Westwood would resign, paraphrasing her own post-convention remark that it would be "the noble thing" for Eagleton to quit...
Drinan began by thanking the voters for giving him "an over-whelming mandate." Nobody caught the joke, including the press which interpreted the remark as a victory statement. Drinan then lauded Massachusetts as "the peace state" which delivered "its mandate to George McGovern." He concluded his talk by saying "Come hell or high water, we'll obtain our objective, that supreme objective of everyone here and everyone in the country: peace in this world." The cheers were lusty, but there was none of the bedlam which had broken out in Drinan's headquarters on election night two years ago. Drinan...
...American Mercury magazine, then published and edited by Spivak, Meet the Press moved to NBC television in 1947 and, with its Sunday broadcasts, quickly became a prime supplier of Monday morning headlines. Americans got their first official word of the Russian atomic bomb from an inadvertent remark made by General Walter Bedell Smith on a 1949 program. Thomas E. Dewey used the show in 1950 to eliminate himself from the presidential race and to tout Dwight Eisenhower as the 1952 Republican nominee. John F. Kennedy made his debut on MTP in 1951 as a young, relatively obscure Congressman. "We were...
...Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that "it would be a noble thing" for Eagleton to resign from the Democratic ticket. That not-at-all casual remark undermined Eagleton's position and made his effort on Face the Nation irrelevant...