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Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid; even the liberal New York Times endorsed Republican Kenneth Keating.
Two months later, he assailed George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism," declaring, "Compassion means reserving the surplus until we save Social Security first ...
Liberals assailed President Clinton's welfare-reform policy at what was supposed to be a friendly gathering.
Unaware of this, Wilkins and Alec Stokes continued their work and reported at a meeting in Cambridge in July 1951 that DNA chains were probably in a helical conformation with a diameter of 20 Å. At the close of the meeting, Franklin assailed Wilkins, saying that he should stop his DNA work (as Randall had written would be the case).
The NRA assailed the ban, and promised to seek relief in Congress and the courts.