Word: whitely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ever since the prospects for Clement Haynsworth's confirmation to the Supreme Court began to fade, key Republican Senators have tried to persuade the Nixon Administration to withdraw the nomination and avoid an embarrassing, party-splitting showdown. Nixon has refused. Mustering every scintilla of White House prestige and pressure, he has sought to win over recalcitrant Senators, but with little success. As a result, Nixon now faces the biggest defeat of his young Administration...
Renewed Efforts. Administration tallies disputed those figures, and in public and private White House aides continued to exude confidence in Haynsworth's eventual confirmation. The Administration's figures have as many as 52 Senators finally voting to raise Haynsworth to the seat previously held by Justice Abe Fortas. Haynsworth backers believe that the opposition has crested and that time is on their side. The Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to issue contradictory reports. According to the majority, "Judge Haynsworth is extraordinarily well qualified for the post to which he has been nominated." The minority found his conduct "not acceptable...
While Thieu and his colleagues congratulated themselves, U.S. military men in Saigon matched up their on-the-spot view of the war with Nixon's assessment, which had filtered through the layers of State Department and White House bureaucracy. The consensus was that the President was generally close to the mark, though optimistic. If the military in Saigon had any reservation about the speech, it concerned the favorable statistics that Nixon cited-which could be reversed in a painfully short time if the Communists once more decided to intensify the conflict...
...Dodd committee feels that a prime factor in school violence these days is racial desegregation. For one thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment...
...that the Supreme Court has decreed an immediate end to racial segregation in Southern public schools, many white resisters have only one place left to turn: private white "segregation academies." In recent years, the South has blossomed with more than 200 such schools, which are set up for the sole purpose of excluding blacks. According to one recent estimate, at least 300,000 white students out of 7,400,000 now attend segregated private schools in eleven Southern states. By all the evidence, the new academies will increase that total fast...