Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yours was a courageous and wise choice...
...earthy humor that make him an engaging political personality. He would, he said, enter primaries in at least Illinois, California, New Hampshire and Oregon. But, he said, "it's gonna be a real rough go. It's difficult for a Westerner from a small state, population-wise, to get the nomination. And I'm willing to take that chance." He said that he saw "no incompatibility" in filing for re-election to the Senate while running for President. Reporters reminded him that he had been sharply critical of Lyndon Johnson for running for Vice President...
Having twenty minutes to speak, I used ten, by the clock in Burr, to explain the right (Jeffersonian) policy for an educational community, namely to teach responsibility by giving freedom in a framework of wise counsel and affectionate support. I then spent one minute on my "alarming frankness," namely, the insoluble problems of being a husband and father without allowing marriage to become an inhibiting jail--(by the way, I wish young Brackman would bring up three good children of his own before lecturing his elders on the responsibilities of fatherhood); and the rough go of being bisexual...
...amendment and the vice-President permitted to serve in any office in the executive branch. Thus the man elected vice-President could be appointed Secretary of State, Attorney General, Director of the Bureau of the Budget, special Presidential adviser--or to any other office the President and he thought wise. At the very least, if the chief executive felt his number two man was not fit to hold any high office, he could attend cabinet meetings and head special committees--the same things the vice-President does...
...enjoyed your piece about ex-sex queens of Hollywood [Dec. 13]. You do a public service in so clearly distinguishing them from actresses. I wish there had been someone to wise me up last year when I made the disastrous mistake of casting Miss Rita Hayworth in my first Broadway play, Step on a Crack...