Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EISENHOWER: I have trouble picturing one aspect of all this, I should say. There is this difficulty that the formulation of this presents: I wonder if any of you could tell me what kind of leader would best personify the kind of unity we need? I know we have many fine, capable young men in the party...
NIXON: Well, now I'm not sure I agree with that. Of course I have great respect for your position, Barry, but I wonder if we aren't a little off in our estimate. This was, after all, an unusual year. Johnson is a popular President and I think it can be said that the country didn't want three Presidents within 11 months. In a more normal year, perhaps the center of power--from where we should, I think with all respect, draw our candidate--will shift back to, say, California and New York...
...African kills an intruding Caucasian, his condemnable action only shows that all Africans are atrocious cannibals warring against the civilized Christian and humanitarian white race! As a Nigerian, may I ask if you have forgotten the three civil rights martyrs of white Mississippi in the heart of "civilization"? No wonder the Chinese Communists have a case...
...been very much a dabbler, and I'm not ashamed of it. Sometimes I wonder idly what I might be remembered for a hundred years from now-but I don't really very much care what people think about me, especially a hundred years hence." Perhaps John Burdon Sanderson Haldane did not really care, but last week, when it came time for BBC-TV to present a prefilmed obituary of the versatile British scientist in which he appeared, it was clear that he would be remembered for a multitude of contributions to man's knowledge...
...wonder, can a people be taught to respect law when their teachers continue to use law cynically, prosecuting not when the weight of evidence demands prosecution, but only when the whims and passions of local citizens seem to make conviction probable? The Federal government should start teaching by example, should start standing up to prejudice in the courts and stop fencing with prejudice in the city halls and back rooms...