Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Human Roadblock? Next day Attorney General William P. Rogers called a news conference to explain the legal basis for the agreement as he saw it. The agreement rests, he said, upon his own constitutional interpretation that, given disability, only the powers of the presidency and not the office of the presidency devolve upon the Vice President. Even so, said Rogers, the situation would be much clearer with a constitutional amendment that would 1) require the Vice President to get majority approval from the Cabinet, i.e., from the President's own personal appointees, before declaring the President disabled...
...Those who would carry on great public schemes must be proof against the worst fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults, and, worst of all, the presumptuous judgment of the ignorant upon their designs...
...month ago. "I have been sent to your country as ambassador of peace," he proclaimed, and as he began to gravitate around official Washington, usually accompanied by his handsome wife, often talking about "my four kids," he seemed bent on making a case for it. Menshikov paid beaming calls upon Eisenhower (twice), Nixon (once), and Dulles (twice). He skirted precedent by calling upon members of the President's personal staff, first off Sherman Adams, explaining with a big smile that "I'm not very strict on protocol...
Menshikov courted the U.S. loyal opposition by dining with Adlai Stevenson and giving him some tourist tips for his coming trip to the U.S.S.R.-"I will give you my assurance that you will be welcome everywhere." He began to touch bases on Capitol Hill, calling one by one upon Democrats Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, Republicans William F. Knowland and Joe Martin, even dropping in one day last week to see Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres, who had written to ask if it would be all right to show some G.O.P. ladies around the Soviet...
...repetitious emphasis upon the exceeding sinfulness of man and the exceedingly simple way of enjoying the forgiveness of God by registering one's repentance in the signing of a card-this would be like playing a child's game if it were not done under such solemn pretension . . . The glib promise made over and over again that one thus 'receives the forgiveness of his sins and will go to heaven' discredits Christianity in the eyes of discerning men and women ... Its success in winning thousands by the incantation of an uninterpreted formula must be measured against...