Word: respectfully
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...Reagan chose to remake the high court shares many of his roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son of a paper salesman, Rehnquist grew up in the quiet Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood. After serving three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he used the G.I. Bill to go to Stanford. Graduating first in his class from Stanford Law (a classmate was Sandra Day O'Connor...
Kennedy spokesman Chuck McDermott accused Roosevelt of "practicing the politics of exclusion." He said Kennedy has "too much respect" for his other opponents "to exclude them from the dialogue. It's unfair to the voters...
...fact, the list of contributions is impressive, if something of a mess. We have our inventiveness to celebrate, our efficiency, the dollars. Old pluck and luck, hard work, can do. We have our generosity to celebrate, our respect for the rights of others, fair play--in principle, if not always in our conduct. We celebrate the principle. National good nature; we have that to think about as well, and laughter at ourselves. "Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddam radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system," said Al Capone...
...attack bases and terrorists in Libya, to proclaim that the U.S. will protect U.S. interests and citizens against any form of terrorism wherever it occurs, and then urge all governments in the world to do the same, but when we do it and, with all respect, do it more professionally than they do, the U.S. blames...
...accomplishments in four years at the Undergraduate Council, he may forever be identified with the 90 pages of by-laws he unloaded on a shocked council at the end of his freshman year. (One provision stated, "The term 'shall,' with respect to persons shall entail a duty to perform...