Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of the conference, King had assured his colleagues that, despite death threats, he was not afraid. "Maybe I've got the advantage over most people," he mused. "I've conquered the fear of death." King was well aware of his vulnerability. After the strategy session, King washed and dressed for dinner. Then he walked out of Room 306 onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine to take the evening air. Leaning casually on the green iron railing he chatted with his co-workers readying his Cadillac sedan in the dusk below...
Bobby Kennedy, for one, wanted to make sure of that. He requested a meeting "to discuss how we might work together in the interest of national unity during the coming months," and Johnson quickly agreed to the get-together. It was their first formal session since the bitter 45-minute confrontation in the White House 14 months ago, when the President angrily lashed out at Bobby for having fostered rumors that he had received a Viet Nam peace feeler during a European visit. Now, in an hour-long meeting described by both sides as "cordial," Johnson briefed Kennedy...
...insure new Israeli enterprises. Retired Republic Corp. Chairman Victor M. Carter pronounced himself "happy and satisfied" with a personal $2 million investment in Israel, then produced plans for $30 million worth of new projects involving Itek and other U.S. companies. Such was the entrepreneurial zeal that, during one committee session, a Manhattan businessman jumped to his feet to cry: "I want to buy 100,000 pairs of women's hose here. Who will sell them...
Judge Samuel T.Tisdale decided at the end of yesterday's brief session to postpone the rest of the Common-wealth's factual presentation untill after the experts' testimony...
...than balance. On a day when Kennedy and McCarthy both make news. Menzies tries to get an LBJ story and a Nixon story even if Johnson and Nixon have done nothing outside the routine. "What do we do on LBJ?" he asked the other day during a page-planning session, and staff members searched through news releases to find out how Johnson had spent...