Word: safeguard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions should be made by the military." Republican Clifford Hansen of Wyoming saw the war as a clear-cut responsibility. "We have to discharge our duty there, and will," he declared. "Our duty is plain-to continue to support the objective of stopping Communist aggression, and to safeguard the freedom and independence of South Viet Nam. We should continue to support the President as long as he holds to those objectives." Nonetheless, added Hansen, people in Wyoming also are "deeply concerned" about the political conduct...
...They 1) devised the Electoral College so that wiser heads than the people's would choose the President, and 2) limited Representatives to two-year terms so that the House would be responsive and responsible to the will of the voter. If neither excess is inconceivable today, neither safeguard is wholly necessary or suitable to contemporary America. Last week, as he promised in his State of the Union address, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the Electoral College and give Representatives four-year terms...
...acted many times in other fields to preserve order when the states have shown that they were unable to do so. It has outlawed white slavery and regulated fireworks because state efforts at control were ineffective. Surely, the President and Congress can move with as much energy to safeguard the constitutional rights of American citizens as they have done in the past to protect them from pimps and pinwheels...
...seems intent on continuing -- even expanding and institutionalizing -- the policy of intervention which it applied to the Dominican Republic. At a meeting of the O.A.S. foreign ministers last week, Secretary of State Rusk proposed the formation of a regional "peace-keeping force", an Inter-American army designed to "safeguard the democratic process against totalitarian takeover...
...community to pursue and promulgate truth without restrictions or censorship from the University Administration, and his right, in the public sphere, to enjoy the freedoms of association and expression which any citizen possesses. At the more of all issues of academic freedom the question of tenure; it is the safeguard which allows a professor to exercise his rights without fear of intimidation from either University or public officials...