Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...President has joined us. He is now on the same perch with the doves. So what is there to argue about? We've won this argument. Now we have to keep withdrawal going. We should not fight the President in his efforts to move us out, we should support him. That way we keep up the pressure on him, and it will be a lot harder for him to turn around...
...candidate for Governor, Nixon repeatedly paid tribute to backers of his plan in both parties. "It was a bipartisan speech," he proclaimed. "There was no partisanship in it. When people are working for peace, there are no politics in it." The Senate quickly and unanimously voted a resolution of support. Even though a lone irate Republican in Congress telephoned Henry Kissinger to complain that Nixon should have saved the speech until after the World Series, the President had good reason to be happy with his performance. Should the Communists eventually agree to his proposals, he will have made the enormous...
...into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign in the troubled, underproductive tin mines. But after a few months, conservative businessmen and military hard-liners helped edge Ovando back toward the center, alienating many of his former supporters. He dropped the leftists in his Cabinet and ordered into retirement General Juan José Torres, his army chief of staff and liaison man with his left-wing support in the army...
...were elected President by the Congress, he would resign immediately, paving the way for new elections. The popular President Frei, legally barred from succeeding himself, would then be permitted to run. Although he would probably have won an absolute majority against any and all opponents, Frei did not support the plan publicly, possibly because he believed that it was merely a way of thwarting the constitutional process...
Then the Christian Democrats tried another tactic. In return for the united support of all 75 C.D.P. Congressmen in next week's balloting, they asked Allende, would he guarantee the survival of Chile's opposition political parties, free press, labor-union autonomy, and right of assembly? And would he relinquish his right to name the chiefs of the armed services and turn that prerogative over to the armed forces themselves, subject to congressional approval? It was a pathetic appeal. TIME Correspondent David Lee noted: "The governing party was beseeching the apparent President-elect for guarantees of the very freedoms that...