Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this include the Birch Society? None of the committeemen would say so-at first. Then Birch Publicist John Rousselot crowed in San Marino, Calif., that it was "wise of the Republican Party to make clear that it doesn't seem to be influenced by extremist groups, such as the Communist Party or the Ku Klux Klan." At which, Wisconsin Representative Melvin Laird told his colleagues: "Let's quit monkeying around. No more hedging, damn it. The answer is yes." And so, by the end of the day, committee members were once again reading out the Birchers...
...Congress already are beginning to question the cost of the programs they voted. Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations' Committee and a longtime Johnson pal, said last week that because of the stepped-up war effort in Viet Nam, the Government might find it wise to be far less generous with funds for the Great Society. "In the light of the situation confronting us," said Mahon, "it is urgent that the executive and legislative branches make a determined effort to withhold the actual spending of funds already made available by Congress for programs that...
...would be wise to concern ourselves, not with the appointment of an academic man, but with possible appointment of a man who has grown up in the Houses," he said...
...beginning of his book, Keniston acknowledges a debt to "three extraordinarily wise teachers: Henry A. Murray, David Riesman, and Erik H. Erikson...
Adams was indignant, and so was the proud and subtle Jay. But wise old Franklin advised the younger men to wait patiently for the main chance, and in the spring of 1782 it came. Lord Shelburne, soon to be named Prime Minister of England, invited Franklin to initiate a correspondence. A few weeks later Richard Oswald, a sagacious Scot, arrived in Paris with authority to negotiate. Franklin dutifully informed Vergennes, and then informed Oswald of the principal American peace conditions: "compleat independence," territorial integrity, freedom to fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, freedom to navigate the Mississippi, no treaty...