Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help. A President who lists our faults and weaknesses does not inspire us. We need a clarion call: Come on, America! We've done it before and we can do it again. We can solve our energy problem. Nothing is impossible for 220 million Americans pulling together. We went to the moon; we shall not let OPEC bring us to our knees! Oh, for a buoyant, confident leader who can make us feel invincible...
Then, in an obvious pitch to ethnic groups in which his support is eroding, he claimed that the U.S. is "not a melting pot. We are more like a pot of minestrone." In case his audience did not savor that line, he went on to say that among the top-level Italian Americans in his Administration was Vice President "Mondali." There was a strained chuckle...
L.B.J. related how Bobby Kennedy's Adam's apple went up and down when L.B.J. barred him from the vice-presidential ticket in 1964. "The most important thing a man has to tell you," said John son, "is what he is not telling you." L.B.J. could mimic every adversary. "Don't look out those windows," he warned his staff who were across the street the day after Kennedy's murder. "The people in the White House will think you are looking for power." When a TV reporter offended Johnson, he told an aide...
...tough after hundreds of trainees rioted for two days in late June in a park and along the sleazy strip of bars, pool halls and prostitute haunts near the base's gates. Complaining that they had been continually cheated by merchants on the strip, the sailors went on a window-smashing, rock-throwing rampage that ended only when the Shore Patrol and North Chicago police officers charged into the mob, swinging their billy clubs. Afterward, 58 trainees were court-martialed...
...line than it usually takes. 3)Kuwaiti diplomats at the U.N. proposed a draft resolution that would, in effect, tie Israel's right to exist, as implied in Resolution 242, with international recognition of the Palestinians' right to self-determination. Through this ingenious strategy, so the hypothesis went, the moderate Arabs were gently nudging the Carter Administration to come to grips with the Palestinian problem by October. If by that time the U.S. failed to respond to the Arab appeal and continued to yield to Israeli obstinacy, the Saudis could simply cut back on their oil production, once...