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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long afterward, Humphrey vowed he would never again seek the vice presidency, proclaimed that his Senate seat was far too rewarding to leave for a job "in which you would stand around waiting for someone else to catch cold." Instead, he decided, it would be far better if someone else did the standing around. In 1960 he became the first major Democratic candidate to announce for the presidency, but disappointment still dogged Humphrey. He lost the primary in his neighboring state of Wisconsin to Kennedy, was trounced again in West Virginia. In a sorrowful scene in Charleston, Humphrey stepped before...
...main thrust of Barry's speech, however, was to link Lyndon Johnson's Administration with the issues of law, order and morality. Alluding to Negro rioting, he drew wild applause by declaring: "I would not as President support or incite any American to seek redress of his grievances through lawlessness, violence, and hurt to his fellow men." There is, said Goldwater, "a feeling in America today which may be as meaningful in the long run as any other factor" in this election year. This mood was a reaction to "the doctrine of the fast buck and the code...
Golden Rule. In political speeches, Goldwater generally forgoes organ-tone wind-ups appealing to Providence. But he almost always stresses the religious underpinnings of his political philosophy. Said he in his San Francisco acceptance speech: "Those who seek to take your liberty, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for Divine Will. And this nation was founded upon the acceptance of God as the author of freedom...
President de Gaulle may seek to make his current interest in Southeast Asia appear Olympian, but the interest that many Frenchmen have in the area is down to earth-and economic. Though forced to leave the area as a major power a decade ago, France still holds at least a $375 million investment in her former Indo-Chinese empire, more than any other nation. The total may not seem great in the industrialized West, but in a backward region it constitutes a substantial influence...
...Hide & Seek. Rodney had misjudged both the skill and the intentions of an adversary who had just reached the Indies: Francois Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Louis XVI's "lieutenant general of the naval army" (equivalent to rear admiral). De Grasse, who stood 6 ft. 2 in. and looked 6 ft. 6 in. on days of battle, had prepared for his finest hour by getting captured by the British when he was 25. From Washington, Lafayette and Rochambeau went a stream of messages to De Grasse, urging him to assert Franco-American naval supremacy somewhere along the coast. Washington...