Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerging from a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Eugene McCarthy was besieged by reporters. What, they clamored, had Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said about the Gulf of Tonkin? "It was," deadpanned McCarthy, "a dark and moonless night." That climactic note, 3½ years after the encounter that overtly set the stage for the all-out U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, was one of the few certitudes about an incident that seems destined to rank in history with such hoary whodunits as the War of Jenkins...
...association even urged businesses to open no new branches in the state, unsuccessfully opposed Miami's effort to bring the 1968 Republican National Convention there. An N.E.A. task force toured six of Florida's largest cities, urging civic and business leaders to lobby for a special legislative session devoted to school problems...
...ground rules: no liquor or psychedelic drugs during the session, no cameras, no leaving the group in pairs. Also: "Participants agree not to engage in overt sexual expression . . . denned as any activity which would be socially inappropriate in a similar group wearing clothing...
...month-long debate on two crucial civil rights bills last Wednesday, seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds. In a 55-37 fight, the bill was defeated by the ever obstreperous group of Southern Democrats and Republicans who scotched so much worthwhile legislation in the last congressional session. The United States has not been so close to internal warfare in the last hundred years. It can little afford such chicanery...
Although on Wednesday Dirksen committed himself to working out some sort of legislation ("I trust before this session concludes there will be a civil rights bill") Mansfield is not as optimistic...