Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grossly underfunded. I simply will not support Johnson for President in 1968." Other Democratic Party workers are trying to put on the pressure. A New York-based group called Citizens for Kennedy-Fulbright released a letter, signed by 50 former Democratic Convention delegates, asking the President not to seek re-election because of antiwar sentiment within the party. Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, announced that he is starting a personal campaign aimed not at "dumping Johnson" but at writing a "peace plank" into the 1968 Democratic platform...
...Governors should have four-year terms and freedom to seek re-election as often as they like. At present, eleven Governors are elected to two-year terms. Eleven others cannot succeed themselves-a restriction that can make them lame ducks the morning after their inauguration. Governors' salaries should be at least $30,000 a year; the Governor of Arkansas now makes $10,000 (not that the incumbent, Winthrop Rockefeller, needs more), and 17 other chief executives get $20,000 or less. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor should be from the same party and should be the state...
...often the author's theory is lost in jargon or banality: "In a political process, finally, the relative power of the different groups involved is as relevant to the final decision as the appeal of the goals they seek or the cogency and wisdom of their arguments." In history and memoir, which fortunately occupy the bulk of the book, Hilsman is pungent and direct in his appraisal of men and events. Defense Secretary McNamara is described as "almost totally lacking in self-doubt," former CIA Director John McCone as a man with "a rough and ready sense of decency...
...majority of residents in the Roxbury-South End areas are tenants. Participants told of the poor condition of housing and the exhorbitant rent which many tenants must pay. In addition, the Committee heard charges the Negro families are uprooted because of urban renewal; that racial discrimination against those who seek housing is scarce, especially for large families; and that public housing continues to be segregated...
...Many welfare recipients are financially penalized when they or their children seek training or employment. Furthermore, the low wages which an unskilled male worker can earn, as opposed to the benefits paid to large families, create a temptation for the husband to leave home so that the wife may become a recipient to Aid to Families with Dependent Children...