Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexicans in Texas, or Franklin Roosevelt when he sent troops to Iceland in 1941, or Truman when he sent U.S. forces into Korea in 1950, or Eisenhower in the Lebanon crisis, or Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs. In modern times, the possibility of nuclear conflict has made swift decision-making by the President an imperative. Says Stanford's Historian Emeritus Edgar E. Robinson: "The growth of the powers of the President in foreign relations appears to be the most important phenomenon in modern history, inasmuch as the exercise of those powers by four Presidents in the past 20 years...
Stirring Vision. In his application of naked power, Johnson is an acknowledged virtuoso as his Viet Nam critics ruefully concede. Despite thunderous criticism of his intervention in the Dominican Republic, the President's swift application of military strength followed by an intense diplomatic campaign proved, in the end, a successful maneuver. He has also applied indirect pressure with superb efficacy. Twice he used it to avert a war over Cyprus. His historic hot-line exchange with Kosygin during the Arab-Israeli War contained that conflict on terms acceptable to both the U.S. and Russia. Johnson's artful cajolery ended...
Police said a smaller quantity of drugs, including LSD, was found later in a Montpelier home. Although they had a search warrant, a spokesman for the police said, detectives masqueraded as friends of Swift's in order to search his rooms...
...spokesman for the police said that Swift's calling himself a Harvard student will be considered a lie, and "they will ask him about it during the trial...
...Swift, confined in a jail with two evenings of visiting and phoning time per week, was unavailable for comment...