Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along these lines. When I completed my two-hour talk, I asked him if there was anything to which he could take exception and he said, quite publicly, that there was not. He then remained silent for more than a year. Now he has again repeated his "conclusions" in support of the commission...
Still, Viet Nam can hardly be held entirely responsible for the President's set-backs in the ephemeral but transcendently important area of public respect and support. Johnson could cultivate his consensus for only so long. Once he had to start assigning priorities, as every President eventually must, the politics of harmony had to give way to the politics of conflict and controversy...
...have broken finally with such Democratic stalwarts as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, New York's Senator Robert Kennedy and Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy. Much of the anger directed at Johnson spilled over onto Vice President Hubert Humphrey as well, largely because of his unwavering support of the Viet Nam war and of the feeling among his erstwhile friends in the Americans for Democratic Action that he had "deserted" them. The result has been to diminish drastically Humphrey's hopes of ever succeeding Johnson...
...almost more important than the constitutional authority. Johnson is essentially a manager and a manipulator. He knows where all the levers are and he knows how to use them. But when he must, by the sheer force of his intellect and his personality, develop that broad base of support essential to moving the country, he often fails dismally...
...Labor and Public Welfare Committee, knows not only every detail in the bill but also who will oppose it-and just when he must compromise. He is consulted by the President on every important labor dispute. But primarily because of his Viet Nam policy, Morse's longtime supporter, Oregon's A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted 269 to 101 at its convention to support Duncan...