Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nomination was going to be held up because "several Senators" had questioned it (actually, only Wyoming Democrat Joe O'Mahoney, recovering from a stroke at the Bethesda naval hospital, had asked for an additional day to study Gates's testimony). Just as casually he let Gates know after the next day's tough headlines that the nomination would go through. It did, by voice vote...
...hard facts of intelligence point toward production plans that would reduce the ratio to 2 to 1. In Washington Democrat Symington snapped: "He completely confirms my position without reservation." Said Democrat Johnson less sharply: "I believe that our officials are patriotic men trying to do the best they know how, but I think we could all sleep in more peace if our country spent more time putting its best effort into solving a situation rather than putting the best face on the situation...
...friends since their military student days at St. Cyr 50 years ago dispassionately discussed their opposing views on Algeria. Sympathetically, brisk, beefy Alphonse Juin, the only living marshal of France, told Charles de Gaulle that he looked tired. Answered De Gaulle: "I am old. Death waits for me, I know." Then, wearily, he added: "But I have never been so resolved...
...Next I speak to the army . . . As you know, I have the supreme responsibility. It is I who bear the country's destiny. I must, therefore, be obeyed by every French soldier . . . No soldier under penalty of being guilty of serious fault, may associate himself even passively with the insurrection. In the last analysis, law and order must be reestablished. The methods employed to make law and order prevail may be of various sorts. But it is your duty to bring this about. I have given and am giving this order...
...Macmillan got to Nyasaland, where the blacks outnumber the whites 485 to 1, the Africans were getting disgruntled too. Macmillan made no attempt to see, let alone to set free, the imprisoned black "Messiah," Dr. Hastings Banda. Orton Chirwa, the territory's only black barrister, bluntly demanded to know why Britain was so afraid of Sir Roy. Macmillan testily replied: "Britain has never been frightened of anyone - not even Hitler." Finally, at the Ryalls Hotel in Blantyre, Macmillan ran into his first hostile crowd...