Word: impactions
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Aware that Kennedy's speech would command considerable attention, the Administration took considerable pains to soften its impact. Before Bobby began speaking, Johnson casually dropped the news that Moscow had agreed to talks on "means of limiting the arms race in offensive and defensive nuclear missiles." The U.S., said the President, was anxious to dissuade the Russians from deploying an anti-ballistic missile system that might force Washington to increase drastically its own missile program. Just as Bobby took the floor, the President had a letter delivered to Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson vowing that...
...experts in the State Department. In 1959, he was recalled by Secretary of State Herter to serve in the newly created Bureau of Soviet Affairs. One of his associates has commented, "His special ability is his sense of political interrelationships. He can take an event and immediately see its impact on a whole series of other events in widely separated parts of the world...
...experience in 1964 makes Goldwater an expert on the political impact of the civil rights issue. Thus he was bearish about Romney's chances of disentangling himself in the public's mind from the Mormon doctrine on Negroes. "They can kill you," Goldwater said, "even though your civil rights record, like Romney's, is a good one." The only hope the Arizonan sees for any Republican in 1968 is if "Johnson fails in Viet Nam." Unlike Romney, however, Goldwater's view is that the war "actually seems to be going better now." Indeed, Barry has never...
...antagonistic, and it is almost as hard to turn a good play into a good film as it is to make soup out of soap. The feat is attempted in three current attractions based on well-known stage works. Surprisingly, two of the three are films of blasting impact...
...other words, the impact of much of what Goldberg does or tries to do seems to have been undercut by his superiors in Washington. Perhaps this should be interpreted as an encouraging sign, since it indicates that those who urge that a negotiated settlement be America's top priority in Vietnam are occasionally allowed a public platform. But the irreconcilables always seem to get the last word...