Word: weaknessness
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The dilemma of the current generation of congressional liberals is in large part testimony to the weakness of American liberalism over the last two decades. Had Congress consistently refused to go along with President Johnson--had there been a wide-spread effort to convince the voters of the folly of...
The political weakness of Chancellor Erhard should not deter the administration from delivering the coup d'grace to the Multilateral Fleet, and other related plans for nuclear sharing, during the German leader's visit this week. Despite the criticism this move will arouse in Germany, the U.S. must make clear...
Still, Lyndon Johnson suffers from one further problem: Lyndon Johnson. "The prevailing weakness of most public men is to slop over," Humorist Artemus Ward wrote a century ago. "G. Washington never slept over." The pun aside, Ward stated a problem that has plagued the President all along, and now threatens...
Truman's words fell like thunder claps on banks and stock markets from Wall Street to Tokyo, but their impact was most pronounced in Washington-particularly on the man in the White House. Lyndon Johnson is something of a Populist who agrees with Truman that money should be easier...
Hardly Happy. Western observers noted that, despite their hard-lining public stand on Viet Nam, the Russians have never been particularly happy about the war there. But to retain credibility in their struggle with Red China for paramountcy in the Communist world and to avoid any sign of weakness, they...