Word: withdrawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commissioners for the District of Columbia. Although checking financial records of presidential nominees is routine, no White House aide noticed that eight income tax liens had been sworn out against Reeves in the last ten years-a fact that the Senate easily discovered. Last week Kennedy was forced to withdraw Reeves's nomination, as a consequence, Krock noted, of "one of the most splendid examples in history of the beauties Mr. Kennedy sees in staff undercoordination...
...nation conference on Laos in Geneva, where prospects were no more encouraging. The argument was mostly about helicopters (did or did not the I.C.C. need them to police the cease-fire?). Publicly, the U.S. promised to pull out its 300 military advisers from Laos if North Viet Nam would withdraw its estimated 1,000 soldiers. Privately, the U.S. delegation admitted that Boun Oum's government was as good as dead and that the next top man in Laos would be Souvanna Phouma-the very man the U.S. had tried hard...
FOREIGN POLICY : Goldwater has seriously suggested that the U.S. withdraw recognition of the Soviet Union. He is against financial help to uncommitted neutrals and wants to cut the overall foreign aid budget. At the same time, he would vote for greater military and technical assistance to the U.S.'s best friends abroad...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., adopted a "progressive Republican" platform of which Goldwater bitterly disapproved. But when Arizona nominated him as its favorite son for President, he walked out on the rostrum to withdraw-and to make the convention's most telling speech in pleading for G.O.P. unity, with heavy conservative overtones. "Now you conservatives and all Republicans," he cried, "I'd like you to listen to this. We've had our chance, and I think the conservatives have made a splendid showing at this convention. Let's, if we want to take this party back...
...father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill: "I just told him to go to hell...