Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example of the President's attitude toward State politics, Gleason cited an anecdote from Theodore H. Whites The Making of the President 1960. Someone asked Kennedy, then a Presidential candidate, what he had done during his career in Massachusetts. Reportedly Kennedy answered "I've kept out of the swamp...
...rallied his followers in the U.S. House of Representatives. Next day, standing proudly in the well of the House, Georgia's Carl Vinson, 78, insisted that victory had indeed been achieved. "They have gotten the message," said "Uncle Carl," who is also known as "the Admiral" and "the Swamp Fox." He continued: "They know that Congress is not just talking, but that we mean business. So we can congratulate ourselves...
...expenditures rather than "order" them. To help Vinson out of his hole, President Kennedy suggested: "Why don't we send a letter that you could make public?" Without a word, Vinson produced a draft of such a letter. Laughed Kennedy: "That's where you got the name Swamp Fox." Then, while Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. along with other White House and Vinson aides. debated about the precise wording of letters to be signed by the President and McNamara, Kennedy and Vinson strolled through the Rose Garden. When they returned, the agreement was ready...
Carl Vinson, 78, of Milledgeville, Ga.has spent 45 years influencing military legislation in the House of Representatives, where he is known fondly as "Uncle Carl," "The Admiral" and "The Swamp Fox." Since World War II, Chairman Vinson of the Armed Services Committee has been doing a slow burn while Pentagon leaders under Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy refused to use money voted by Congress for specific projects. Examples: construction of a Navy supercarrier in 1949; ordering additional Air Force B-525 in 1961. Last week Uncle Carl finally lost his temper over the issue of how much...
These same runners, especially Buchta, could swamp the varsity so badly on the track that even the traditional Crimson domination of the field events will not be enough. Buchta is certain to win either the 600 or the 1000, whichever he decides to enter...