Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone's faith in American political fourflushing. "It's obviously Bobby," said one White House aide. "McCarthy has no burning conviction. He's not leading a peace movement." The remark reflected a widely held conspiracy theory that McCarthy's aim is to unite dissident Democratic support in the primaries and then throw that support to Robert Kennedy some time before next summer's Democratic Convention. Texas Governor John Connally, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's, called McCarthy "a stalking horse, a catalyst for dissidents...
...conspiracy theory was vigorously espoused by Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy and their aides. McNamara has retained close personal ties with the Kennedys (a fact used to support the argument that McNamara had been canned), and on Monday evening Bobby spent an hour with McNamara at the Pentagon. Next day, as Bobby passed him notes, Ted took the Senate floor to say: "I have heard that it is not a question of his having submitted his resignation." He went on to ask for the facts while Kennedy aides kept feeding misinformation into Washington's ever-ready fantasy factory...
...these sessions he liked to cite John Kennedy's original direction to him: "Determine what forces are required and procure and support them as economically as possible." The first half of this mandate meant more spending. Even before the Viet Nam war reached major proportions, McNamara's budget was $10 billion above those of the last Eisenhower years because Kennedy was determined to establish his own military strategy-flexible response instead of John Foster Dulles' massive retaliation. Flexible response dictated that the nation must be able to meet any military challenge, whether nuclear, conventional or guerrilla...
...purpose candidate for either post might well be former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, 48. A Republican who worked for Kennedy and Johnson and was tapped for duty by L.B.J. during the Arab-Israeli war last summer, his vigorous voice is still being raised in effective support of Johnsonian policies...
...place his name on next spring's primary ballot as a third-party candidate for President. Last week, behind the body-blocking of a dozen armed Alabama cops, all of them still on the state payroll, Wallace campaigned from San Francisco to San Diego trying to win support for his American Independent Party. Accompanied by a country-music troupe and cheered by older, working-class whites, many of them emigrants from Dixie, Wallace served up his set harangue against "perfessers, liberals, social engineers and all those people who want to tell the rest of us how to live." Knowing...