Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...affair, the one clear fact was that Lavon's resignation in February 1955 brought Ben-Gurion back from 15 months' retirement in the Negev to take Lavon's post. Shortly afterward, Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister, replacing Moderate Moshe Sharett, who was more susceptible to the argument that Israel must try to quiet the fears of its Arab neighbors if it is to live in peace with them. Eleven days after Ben-Gurion's return, the Israeli army carried out the massive reprisal raid on Gaza in which Israelis blew up the Egyptian headquarters and killed...
...case, the omission of the price tag is the weakest point in Kennedy's argument. As Galbraith writes, again in The Liberal Hour, "If we haven't yet learned to mistrust, indeed to ignore, the man who talks about high national purpose and then omits all mention of the price--or perhaps urges strict economy in public outlays as one of his higher purposes--our case could be pretty...
Some Democrats wonder why Kennedy has not used his running mate Lyndon Johnson's very effective argument that the Republican charge that the Democrats will "spend the country into bankruptcy" preaches a kind of economic timidity, and that this timidity "downgrades America" much more than Democratic complaints about the fact of falling prestige. The country, Johnson continues is too strong and too wealthy to be "spent into bankruptcy"; Republican timidity merely keeps the nation down...
Kennedy appears to have won now--and this is what really distresses the rationalists--not because his argument was good (which it is, if you fill in a few omissions), but because his personality is appealing; because in the absence of a popular Republican leader, the country is normally Democratic; because, possibly, of a large Catholic vote; because of dissatisfaction with the Republicans "ins" in certain depressed areas. If Nixon wins, it will most likely be for similar "irrational" reasons: response to his demagogy about "running down America" and "not giving an inch of the area of freedom"; a carry...
Senator Kennedy's rhetoric rests on a simple argument. In New York past Thursday, the candidate spoke perhaps 10,000 words, but it all boils downs to this...