Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what I thought was my integrity as I committed it to people who were prepared to raise this challenge against the Johnson Administration at a time when it seemed to me a lot of other politicians were afraid to come down into the playing field. They were willing to stay up on the mountains and light signal fires and bonfires and dance in the light of the moon. But none of them came down. They weren't even coming in from outside, just throwing a message over the fence...
...Johnson, Kennedy was increasingly despairing of the Administration's Viet Nam policy. And he feared that a "catastrophic ending," as he put it last week, was to come. After the Communists' Tet offensive, he believed a major U.S. military step-up to be inevitable. "How can I stay out," he asked a friend, "knowing what they are planning to do? I've got to do something." On domestic issues Kennedy grew ever more convinced that Johnson was failing the country...
...terms whereby, if they were accepted by the President, the Senator would agree not to seek the Democratic nomination. Kennedy's message was, in effect, an ultimatum: If Johnson would publicly announce that he had decided to reevaluate the U.S. role in Viet Nam, Kennedy would stay out of the race...
Curious Silence. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller moved ever closer to entry in the Oregon primary, which he now has to win just to stay in the race with Nixon. Last week 33 top Republicans gathered in his Fifth Avenue duplex to advise him on strategy. The council included Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's Governor John Chafee, New York's Mayor John Lindsay and, improbably enough, Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate, former Representative William E. Miller. All but four of the 33 counseled Rocky to declare his candidacy and begin an all-out campaign...
...seems to me the way that you can back out of that bind is saying "all right, let's both stay out" and in that way you back down from this kind of action-reaction bind that we are in right...