Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Viet Nam war taking more than $2 billion monthly, Congress is in no mood to embark on an uncharted, unbudgeted program. "This is extravagant and unattainable," declared Texas Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "If you really got to tackling this thing, $100 billion wouldn't go very...
...Miami Police Chief Walter E. Headley Jr. "Why shouldn't police departments be stockpiling lethal weapons? Weapons are being stockpiled in Viet Nam, and this is a war too." Houston Police Chief Herman Short called the commission's criti cism "ridiculous," adding: "The stockpiling of heavy weapons wouldn't mean anything to anybody if everybody obeyed the law." Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins, one of the eleven commissioners, took exception to his colleagues' complaints about the report. "I'll buy it, I stand with it, I fall with it," said Jenkins...
...with the kind of presidential push needed to transform them into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will -and this is clearly one of them...
Muggeridge, who recently resigned as Rector of Edinburgh over student demands for free birth control pills, also said that he would only allow certified promiscuous girls to have them. Morgan asked him, "Wouldn't you give just one to a nice girl...
...their month. "We all lived in chalets, and we used to go to the canteen for breakfast, then perhaps walk about a bit and meditate, or bathe. Then it was time for lunch." He and Maureen gave up such transcendental experiences, said Ringo, "because we missed the children. I wouldn't want anyone to think we didn't like it there. Of course, Maureen and I are funny about our food-we don't like spicy things...