Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rump Affair. His aim, Buckley said, was "to give the people of New York an opportunity to vote for a candidate who consults without embarrassment the root premises of the conservative philosophy of government." He reserved his coldest scorn for Lindsay, accused him of turning the G.O.P. into "a rump affair" that is "no more representative of the body of Republican thought than the Democratic Party in Mississippi is representative of the Democratic Party nationally." Lindsay, he said, "having got hold of the Republican Party, now disdains the association, and spends his days, instead, stressing his acceptability to the leftwardmost...
...Root of Evil. Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark had no less than 27 separate proposals up his sleeve, including two that dealt with one of Clark's pet peeves: the seniority system of selecting committee chairmen. Clark suggested that henceforth chairmen be elected by secret ballot taken among each committee's majority party members, further urged that a mandatory retirement age of 70 be imposed on all chairmen. Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, mindful of the fact that nine of the Senate's 16 standing committees are chaired by Southerners, wanted...
...Greene, 78, who now lives in the Ozarks near Brixey, Mo. "He was the most anxious to get information of any student I ever saw, especially on political subjects. I think you could trace Lyndon's philosophy back to that time, those classes. That poor boy had to root. It was back there when they had smoked that poor fellow Wilson out. Stupidity was rampant in Washington. We had to have some young blood. Call Lyndon's philosophy what you want, but I call it rational progressivism-adapting our institutions to changing conditions to attain the ideals...
...clock that I haven't had lunch." Frequently, he is still on the telephone at 4 a.m. He manages his afternoon naps but no longer has time for swims in the White House pool. Instead of the relaxing Cutty Sark and soda, he now sips root beer or a no-calorie orange drink in his Oval Office. There are deep, dark circles beneath his eyes, and his voice is hoarse. Last week he paused briefly to gaze at a White House bust of another wartime President - Abraham Lincoln -and compassion was stamped on his own weary features...
...policy, it would come as a surprise to every American statesman, going back to James Monroe. For at its basis lies the sovereign right, defended by Americans of all decades of self-protection. It was perhaps best'expressed by a great Secretary of State, Elihu Root, who wrote in 1914: "it is well understood that the exercise' of the right of self-protection may, and frequently does, extend in its effect beyond the limits of the territorial jurisdiction the state exercising it ... [It is] the right of every sovereign state to protect itself by preventing a condition...