Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fond of comparing himself to the Harry Truman of 1948, who won an upset victory with a rip-roaring "give-'em-hell" campaign. Johnson's opponents prefer to compare him to the Truman of 1952, who decided not to run again in the midst of an unpopular war. Neither analogy quite fits. The fact is that the 1968 campaign is shaping up as a race like none before...
...time when the United States Congress has relegated urban programs to a low priority when handing out funds, large foundations like Ford must assume even more responsibility in financing short-term efforts. City and state governments, even if they do have available funds, will not support politically unpopular programs such as the Ford-backed project on racial integration at the School of Education. Often fruitful research can go hand in hand with temporary programs, however short-lived those solutions...
...Byrnes and Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he declared: "They will live to regret the day when they made that decision [to bottle up the tax bill], because it is a dangerous decision. It is an unwise decision." Raising taxes is an unpopular move, but "we should do it" and eventually "Congress will do it." Will he run again? "I will cross that bridge when I get to it." Hardly anybody in the room doubted that he had long since made the crossing...
...Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
...think," he says, "it's going to affect me much, er, personally. It's me and my colleagues that've got to be left with the job of governing the country. Decisions have got to be made, perhaps unpopular, but we shall make them. The more unpopular they are, the more we shall make. At last we know where we are going and can see the end of the road." With that, the scene shifts to a car trundling down a beach and plopping ignominiously into the water...