Word: token
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much a scandal hurts often depends on how skillfully it is exploited by political enemies. When he accepted a token gift for putting in a good word for his friend Bernard Goldfine with the Federal Trade Commission, Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's Presidential Assistant, did not do anything much out of the ordinary in Washington. But congressional Democrats, who were smarting from charges of corruption during the Truman Administration, seized their opportunity and drove Adams from public life. Former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas exercised bad judgment when he accepted a retainer from the foundation of Financier Louis Charles Wolfson...
...many days. His whirlwind schedule and the resulting mood of if-it's-Tuesday-this-must-be-Djakarta were not very conducive to thoughtful consultations. Still, at a time when American prestige was riding high around the world, Nixon had come to Asia for more than a token visit...
...ground, air and naval support units would remain indefinitely thereafter. Without infantry protection, they would be prey to the enemy, totally dependent on South Vietnamese units. This approach is unacceptable to Nixon on both military and political grounds. The implication was that, except perhaps for token remnants, the Nixon plan amounted to total withdrawal. As word of the White House meeting began to get around Capitol Hill, one congressional aide concluded: "Nixon is going to pull the plug. It's just a matter of time...
Back home as well as in the field, the President's decision was both hailed as a constructive step and attacked as a token maneuver of little significance. Americans in uniform and in mufti have seen too many false starts toward peace to be carried away by what at best is a cautious attempt at disengagement. One cynical draftee dismissed it as "strictly political." Another G.I. saw the move as evidence that "something is being accomplished." That division of opinion spoke for the capital and the country at large...
Nelms is already choosing a planning board to see to it that "none of these parties end after just a few token drinks. I want them to run as long as there's a crowd there to have fun." To house the parties, he recently purchased an office building near downtown Dallas and enough nearby land to provide an adequate parking...