Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's friend and a perceptive former aide, pointed out recently that social changes now come so rapidly that they outstrip the ability to comprehend them, let alone cope with them. Occasionally, Johnson's shrewd mind did grasp the moment and the need. When, after Selma, he went before Congress to vow "We shall overcome," he was genuinely moving. And some of the innovative programs he began, such as Headstart, testified to his willingness to seek new solutions. Yet all too often he answered the call of the '60s with the responses...
Uneven Efficacy. Yet by one traditional gauge-the enactment of major legislation-the Johnson Administration was conspicuously successful. Medicare and federal aid to education broke through longstanding barriers. Three far-reaching civil rights acts went beyond anything since Reconstruction. A series of laws aimed at slum renovation and consumer protection were progressive and long overdue. The various anti-poverty programs, while uneven in efficacy and wisdom, were the beginning of a necessary break with the dole approach. In the foreign field, the continuing torment of Viet Nam overshadowed significant accomplishments. Most notable were agreements with the Russians and the beginning...
...sensed the need to inspire, the opportunity for grand works, and he tried. "Somehow we must ignite a fire in the breast of this land, a flaming spirit of adventure that really demands greatness," he said after a few months in office. Yet his matches often flickered out. He went to Ann Arbor that first spring as President to proclaim the Great Society, to challenge the nation to use its "wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization." A few years later, the Great Society was gone from the presidential vocabulary...
...symbolism he perceived in the Beirut airport attack. "The fact that French helicopters were used to destroy French Caravelles is altogether unacceptable," he told his Cabinet, reportedly adding: "They could at least have used American Sikorskys." Angered at Israel's "unspeakable and unacceptable" behavior, De Gaulle went further than the simple resolution of censure voted in the U.N. He decreed a total embargo on all shipments of French arms to Israel...
...predicted that within six months he would be impeached or simply resign from office. But "Uncle Shad" has endured. Now in his sixth term, he has been busy the last two weeks celebrating his 25th anniversary as chief executive of Africa's oldest republic. TIME Correspondent James Wilde went to the party, a ten-day long binge of dinners, dances, agricultural exhibitions, parades and fireworks. His report...