Word: thanklessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minority Leader Everett Dirksen who, with Democratic cooperation, practically wrote the civil rights bill. But as floor manager for the bill, Humphrey took on the thankless task of recruiting Republican support with judicious compromise, fending off hot-eyed civil-rightsers who might have upset the cart by demanding all or nothing, and at the same time keeping an uneasy peace with Southern Democrats even while leading the fight to invoke cloture against their filibuster. Like a man with four hands, Humphrey did it all, smoothly avoided antagonism, and in the process added new inches to his stature among his colleagues...
When Sir Giles Guthrie took on the thankless job of BOAC chairman last year, he was stuck with an order for 30 unwanted Super VC-10s. In an effort to make BOAC a paying proposition, Sir Giles recently demanded cancellation of the entire order-and the purchase instead of seven Boeing 707s. That, he said, would take care of BOAC'S needs through 1968. Aircraft producers let out a "Buy British" howl, and workers from British Aircraft Corp.'s Weybridge plant marched on Parliament carrying placards: FIRST THE BRAIN DRAIN NOW THE PLANE DRAIN. Aviation Minister Julian Amery...
...Tucson Lawyer Burch's only national campaign experience has been as an assistant in Goldwater's own drive toward the nomination. But he is a model of a young conservative-in dress, speech, bearing and political philosophy. As a Goldwater Senate aide who later took on the thankless task of arranging campaign schedules for a campaigner with a notable tendency toward last-minute cancellations, Burch earned both Goldwater's professional respect and personal friendship. "Nobody," says Arizona Republican Representative John J. Rhodes, "knows Barry better." That fact will be of major importance, for Goldwater has served notice...
...Goldwater booster since undergraduate days at the University of Arizona, Burch joined the Senator's Washington staff in 1955, became a close personal friend, and even got his flying license after lessons from Old Pilot Goldwater. The youngest of Goldwater's top aides, Burch plunged into the thankless job of scheduling campaign appearances, aided Kitchel in a notable job of offending the fewest possible Republicans despite the candidate's disturbing penchant for last-minute cancellations...
...many Pentagon stargazers, Lieut. General William Westmoreland has long looked like a future Army Chief of Staff. And he almost certainly will be if he succeeds in the thankless job he got last week. He is the new U.S. military-assistance commander in South Viet Nam. Since January, "Westy" Westmoreland, 50, had been deputy to General Paul Harkins, who, after his experiences, must look forward to retirement...