Word: selfishnesses
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More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...
More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...
...promote him from Premier to President and grant him virtually absolute powers. Khanh acted with the knowledge and at least qualified approval of U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor. But Khanh simply could not make his new authority stick. As if at a signal, South Viet Nam's petty, selfish political and religious factions cut loose, not really giving a hoot about the war, hating one another more than the Viet Cong, and using Khanh's power play as an excuse to move on one another...
...Kennedy as a U.S. Senator from New York. Some people forget that the Senate was meant, through longer tenure and fewer members, to serve as a less provincial legislative body than the House of Representatives. New Yorkers have 41 Representatives and another Senator to serve the state's selfish sectional interests. A Senator experienced and interested in the welfare of the whole nation should be welcome in an already too-provincial chamber...
...Republican Convention defeats Goldwater and adopts another "liberal" platform, it will be through the coalition of jealous, selfish, incompetent kingmakers, who will ruin all unity...