Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen observes that Congress lacks not only White House guidance but a sense of popular direction. "A lot of people," says he, "don't seem to know whether they want anything from Congress right now or not." Until they find out, Republicans are generally content to wait on the President, while many Democrats are satisfied to defend existing domestic programs...
...Senate, Democratic and Republican liberals have been filling the void by raising fundamental questions on military tactics in Viet Nam, overseas commitments generally, arms procurement and domestic priorities. This activity does not directly produce much legislation, but George McGovern's hunger investigation did help pressure the White House into formulating a much broader food-distribution program for the poor than had previously been envisioned. Vigorous Senate opposition to the anti-ballistic missile system forced the Administration to overhaul the plan and is now delaying approval of the new proposal. Torpid and disorganized as it seems, Congress nonetheless retains considerable...
...island as an operations base for Viet Nam, have provided ultranationalist rightists and anti-American leftists in Japan with a burning issue against the pro-U.S. government of Premier Eisaku Sato. Last week the U.S. approached the difficult decision. As Japan's Foreign Minister visited the White House to open formal talks on reversion, the Nixon Administration let it be known that it will soon move to return Okinawa and the other Ryukyus to Japanese control...
...sign of interest in a compromise. It prefers to convey the impression that it can get the present proposal through the Senate; the House would then be no problem. Enough hints are being passed, however, to indicate that at the right moment in the next month or so, the White House and the Pentagon will agree to the modified ABM schedule...
Ramrod-stiff but with the old war rior's slow, halting gait, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 76, walked across the Normandy field, gazing somberly upon the long, orderly rows of white crosses that mark the American cemetery near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. From Cherbourg to Le Havre, thousands of survivors of the Allied forces returned to the Continent last week to recall their roles on Dday, a quarter of a century ago. Lord Lovat, the commando leader, and General Sir Richard Gale, the British airborne commander, were back in uniform to commemorate the day. U.S. General James...