Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Senator McCarthy says some sensible things. But he should take his full share of guilt for what happened. For his own ends, intentionally or otherwise, he has encouraged these young people in the highly emotional involvement in public affairs that led them into irrational conduct and the consequent disaster...
In the end, as at the beginning, the Senator from Minnesota was a mystery -a nearly unfathomable blend of intellect, humor, humility and arrogance. Always he was his own man. When he was asked whether he would make a good President, he answered: "I am willing to be President. I...
Pride and Persuasion. Yet sometimes this understatement became a form of intellectual pride. Persuasion was somehow beneath him. Talking to delegates uncertain about his position on Viet Nam, he would say: "I've written three books on my positions" or "I put out a position paper on that last...
At times, McCarthy could be petty and vindictive. Robert Kennedy could never understand the apparent hatred McCarthy felt for him-an emotion that seemed to have deeper origins than Bobby's political sin of joining the race after New Hampshire. The bettereducated, McCarthy told an audience in Oregon, preferred...
"When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him," an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy bath, Alaska's Ernest Henry Gruening is 81. No matter that for...