Word: want
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President until you are a President." He continued: "We are very proud to stand behind you and to support you in your earnest quest for peace in the world and for prosperity at home. No man occupied the place that you occupy who didn't want to do the best he could. Some have succeeded, and some have had less success. But of this you can be sure: if all of your days are as successful as today in bringing happiness to your predecessor, you will have a most successful presidency." Then it was back on board the presidential...
...Viet Nam than L.B.J. ever did. But to talk to outsiders about L.B.J. and his works is to court disaster. After a news commentator at Johnson's KTBC-TV in Austin talked to a reporter about goings-on inside the station, a terse memo came from L.B.J.: "I want his ass fired...
...think they understand, but some of them simply had enough-they are broken. There are boys here who have only 90 days left in Viet Nam. They want to go home in one piece. The situation is psychic here...
...impatient to tackle the Israelis once more-and invite another humiliation. As one Russian military adviser recently told an East European ambassador in Cairo, it will take "a generation" for Egyptian military skills to exceed Israel's. Whether the Egyptians or their brethren in other Arab lands will want to wait that long is, to say the least, questionable...
...parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship." Grass's solution is something called voter initiative, or grass-roots activity by people who do not necessarily belong to parties. Brandt last week hailed voter initiative as "part of the modern Germany we want to create...