Word: rift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed his doubts with increasing vehemence. His proposal two years ago, that the Viet Cong be assured a role in South Viet Nam's future political life, brought an angry rebuttal from the Administration; today some such arrangement seems likely if a settlement is to be negotiated. Despite the rift with the White House, Kennedy insisted that he had no 1968 ambitions; that he would support Johnson regardless of the war. He maintained this posture even after Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson last fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt a double crunch, from...
...that they see the U.S. moving toward peace talks in Viet Nam, they are also afraid that it may be preparing to reduce its commitment to them. The result is a widening rift in U.S.-Thai relationships that will be one of the principal topics of conversation when Thai Premier Thanom Kittikachorn visits Washington this week for talks with President Johnson...
...makes anti-homosexual quips in the same way that some Jews tell anti-Semitic jokes. Each of his friends has his own hangup. A Negro known as "the queen of spades" suffers rejection because of his unrequited love for a heterosexual white boy. One couple is undergoing an emotional rift: one partner is faithful while the other is promiscuous. There is also an outrageously effeminate guest (Cliff Gorman) who brings a flamboyant birthday gift-a dumb hustler (Robert La Tourneaux) who looks like a slightly tarnished Greek god and costs $20 for the night...
...would go to L.B.J. (for a total of 1,725 convention votes, more than 400 above the 1,312 needed for nomination), with the remainder divided among others-790 votes for Kennedy and McCarthy, 61 for Alabama's George Wallace. Predicted Harry Truman, who survived a bitter party rift in 1948 to win the nomination: "The regular Democrats will go down the line to re-elect the President, unless some damn fool splits them...
...leaked prematurely one night to reporters in Washington, and it seemed that L.B.J. was letting his Budget Director go without the customary amenities. In fact, Johnson had written a "Dear Charlie" note of "deepest thanks and warmest admiration," but reporters did not know this, and rumors of a rift spread...