Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scruggs, Viet Nam veteran who conceived and raised funds for the proposed Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, on congressional criticism of it: "You can get furious seeing politicians getting involved, with two out in the bottom of the ninth, with not one red cent from Uncle Sam involved and with thousands of parents writing and telling how they can't wait to visit this remembrance of their dead sons...
...these days, and spectators would do well to appreciate the specimens in One Horse Show, as much for their genuine bellyachin' humor as for the lost world they recreate. Dan Rice, the homespun clown who dressed up in a flag suit and ultimately inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences morality stories (each with a twist), browbeat them with "verbatim" scenes from Hamlet...
...Sam Rosenman still remembered two decades later that he had sent out for some hot dogs. Day was already dawning, and the beefy young lawyer had been waiting all night with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt at the executive mansion in Albany for the news that the presidential nomination had been won. Two secretaries lay asleep on sofas. The first three ballots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago had failed to bring Roosevelt victory, but Rosenman decided to take the hot dogs and a pot of coffee into a nearby dining room and work on the Governor's acceptance speech...
...trial, witnesses described not only the tragedy but an apparent cover-up of earlier questions about Stanford's competence. Last week a federal judge angrily socked the Government with one of the largest personal-injury verdicts Uncle Sam has ever suffered: $1.8 million...
Such distortions led to top-level government decision-making that had little basis in reality. Former CIA agent Sam Adams, whose disclosures prompted the CBS investigation, recalled reading a captured document indicating enemy troop strengths ten times higher than U.S. estimates. The bankruptcy of the reporting system helped tint the rose-colored glasses which could allow President Lyadon Johnson to declare in March 1967: "General Westmoreland's strategy is producing results [and] our military situation has substantially improved...