Word: rumors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...country club miles away. Lyndon said that there were "reasons to take additional precautions," but would not spell them out. "Maybe a year from now, or two years, or five years from now, I can tell you what the situation was," said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. The most persistent rumor was that the Secret Service had been tipped that a Cuban kamikaze pilot might try to ram the presidential plane or that a Cuba-based missile might be fired...
Campus police arrested and Goldwaterite who dumped confetti from a hole in the hall's ceiling. The confetti originally belonged to the Rockefeller group. According to one rumor, a Rockefeller floor leader, knowing what the police would do, tricked him into using...
Weaver described the situation in Canton as "tense." He said that police had started target practice and that there was a rumor that the mayor of Jackson has alerted his special mobile anti-riot force...
...rumor that Sorensen had expressed an interest in writing his book on his White House experience at Harvard gained credence several weeks ago, when he reportedly spent a day at the University and discussed living arrangements with Richard T. Gill, Master of Leverett House...
...suggestion of the possibility of violence and the surface of perfectly contained restraint." But Forrestal was convinced Truman would lose in 1948; he stayed out of politics and refused to campaign for the party. In fact, he met a few times with Dewey, giving rise to the rumor that he was making a deal with the Republicans to stay on as Defense Secretary. Three months after Truman was inaugurated, Forrestal was dismissed...