Word: steadfastness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brian's favor -Bert Lahr, Perry Como and Walter Cronkite, to name most of them-are vastly outnumbered by those who do not. O'Brian has excoriated Danny Kaye for 15 years on the grounds that Kaye's comic talent never escaped infancy. He is equally steadfast in his disapproval of Ed Sullivan ("Old Smiley"), David Susskind ("Little David"), CBS News Commentator Mike Wallace ("a vacuum") and scores of other performers who fall short of the O'Brian standards. "I'm not a Hessian soldier," says O'Brian. "I can't write what...
...expressed an admiration for J.F.K. that undoubtedly would have shocked him: Robert Hazel ("President I love as my grandfather loved Lincoln"); Ruth Yorck ("We may stop worrying./ Our best man died./ We know of no one now we can not spare"); John Tagliabue ("precise politician of such steadfast shaking Luminosity"); Edward Pols ("There, still, your bright incontinent essence/ Inclines to its own completion, still/ Shapes almost its own actuality, still contrives/ Some reason, measure, humor in our lives...
...period of national mourning has been proclaimed by President Johnson. "His steadfast leadership served us undaunted through good times and bad--as businessman, provider for the poor and hungry, president, and elder statesman," Johnson said...
That was last fall, just before the assassination. Lyndon Johnson took up where Kennedy had left off, gave Republicans full credit for their stand, and urged the House to pass the bill as a memorial to Kennedy. Halleck remained steadfast in his support, and in February the House approved the measure by a vote of 290 to 130. For the bill were 152 Democrats and 138 Republicans; against it were 96 Democrats and only 34 Republicans...
President Johnson put the world on notice that under his Administration the U.S. would be steadfast in its support of the United Nations, in its maintenance of a military force second to none, in its dedication to the stability of the dollar and to expansion of foreign trade. He recalled Kennedy's famed Inauguration Day challenge: "Let us begin." And he now resolved: "Let us continue. This is our challenge: not to hesitate, not to pause, not to turn about and linger over this evil moment, but to continue on our course so that we may fulfill the destiny...