Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federation responded to pressure from its own liberal wing by adopting a strong pro-civil rights resolution. As another sop to its social conscience, Meany pledged in his keynote address that organized labor would fight to improve the lot "of all the little people of America...
...Mitterrand. Jean Monnet, architect of the Common Market, backed Mitterrand as well, because he found De Gaulle's idea of Europe the "Europe of centuries past, a rebirth of the nationalist spirit that has brought tragedy to France and Europe." Even De Gaulle's first-ballot, right-wing opponent, Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour, joined the other three eliminated candidates in opposing De Gaulle. The most important of them, pro-Europe, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet, could not quite go all the way to an endorsement of Mitterrand with his Communist backing, but he advised his 3,700,000 voters either...
Support from Lyndon. The next day, following consultations in Washington with Lyndon Johnson, Wilson imposed an embargo on all oil shipped by British nationals to Rhodesia. The embargo drew instant complaints in London, where right-wing Tories are already protesting that Wilson is being too severe on Smith and "our kith and kin." Nonetheless, the embargo subjects violators to maximum legal penalties of six months in jail and a $1,400 fine. The U.S. "welcomed and supported" the move, promised to ask U.S. companies and citizens to voluntarily comply. The London headquarters of Royal Dutch/Shell ordered...
Leaving a Mark. For a time after the assassination, Schlesinger remained in his East Wing office, but Lyndon Johnson gave him practically nothing to do. After 100 days, he left to work on his book, to serve for two weeks as a judge at the Cannes Film Festival, to help Bobby Kennedy in his New York senatorial campaign. His Cambridge house has been rented, and it is unlikely that he will return to Harvard. He plans to spend the next few months at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, immersing himself in F.D.R.'s prewar foreign policy...
Actually, Schlesinger was more part of the atmosphere than the substance of the New Frontier. His office, symbolically, was tucked away in a remote corner of the East Wing, near the social secretary and the correspondence section. His specific assignments were few and vague. Though memos cascaded from his typewriter-"beautiful memos, witty, masterfully written memos," said a colleague, "but often showing bad judgment"-they were frequently ignored. He was only on the periphery of power. But at that, he was closer than most historians have ever been...