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...where he ran U.S. political and military involvement with an iron hand, Sullivan's reports were often memorably pithy. In one particularly difficult period, he cabled to Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State: AFTER YOU READ THIS REPORT, YOU WILL NO DOUBT WANT TO DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE RESIST. WE HAVE ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS WE WILL EVER NEED. I WILL BE REPORTING MY ACTIONS. He also objected to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's notion of building a wire fence along the DMZ to keep Communist infiltrators out of South Viet Nam. He cabled Washington: HOW FAR ACROSS LAOS...
Second, I believe the First Amendment is in serious jeopardy and I would not want to do anything to jeopardize the physical or moral capacity of The Crimson to resist Administrative pressures...
...nearly ready for the takeover, from wherever it may come. We have not the mental vigor left to resist, and someone will walk off with the house while we are preoccupied in the bedroom...
...overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled. Despite his wounds, Stennis lurched to his feet and struggled into the house, where his wife was ready...
...which is to get as close to each other as possible and yet not touch. Lenny passes the test, which scholars have discovered was sometimes required of clerical novices in the Middle Ages, who had to spend a night in the same bed with an unclad nun and resist all temptations in order to prove their piety. The point of such an exercise in this film, aside from the injection of cheap suspense into a sagging plot, is as yet unknown...