Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...your discussion of presidential war powers [June 1], you neglected to quote the most relevant part of the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution: ". . . The United States is, therefore, prepared, as the President determines, to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed force, to assist any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty requesting assistance in defense of its freedom...
...Congress need to be more explicit? South Viet Nam is a "protocol state," and "all necessary steps" for its defense can plainly include air, naval and ground action against all hostile forces and bases which threaten its security, whether they be in Cambodia, in Laos or in North Viet Nam itself...
...Cloud's expulsion," said Murray Gart, Chief of Correspondents, "is an arbitrary and highly irregular act that violates both the spirit and protocol of normal journalistic relations." Cloud served in the San Francisco bureau before going to Moscow, where he ably reported a wide variety of stories on subjects ranging from Soviet space shots to the policymakers in the Kremlin...
...taught that women are irrational. What other explanation could there be for the constant yet seemingly unreasonable fighting with girls about possession, jealousy, sexual protocol, social protocol? Why else are mothers so helplessly trying to control, "protect," their children? Why else are secretaries so "self-important" and "bitchy?" That is, how else can we explain the inhuman relationships we have with women...
...some have called "the triumph of the advance men" has left many open wounds all over town. Says one Nixon aide: "When you come into the White House after eight years on the other side, you bring in people who are bright but not experienced in Government?especially in protocol, the proprieties of dealing with the Hill and other parts of Government, which can matter more than substance. They think they're bright ?that's part of the problem?and experts in politics because they worked in a campaign. Actually, they know very little, especially about the politics...