Word: address
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...week long Richard Nixon basked joyfully in the returns from the most important speech of his presidency, the televised address to his fellow citizens on the problems of war and peace in Viet Nam. There was a flood of congratulatory telegrams that he cheerfully displayed for photographers, a quickie Gallup telephone poll after the speech that showed a 77% favorable response, and a firm consensus of politicians and pundits that Nixon had achieved what he set out to do. At the same time, protesters against the war, unmollified by Nixon's blandishments, readied for this week's demonstrations...
SOUTH VIET NAM'S President Nguyen Van Thieu has never been a demonstrative sort, but last week he was clearly elated by President Nixon's address about the war. "It is the greatest and most brilliant speech I have ever known a United States President to make," said Thieu. His exuberance was understandable. Saigon has always bridled at the Viet Nam alternatives discussed in the U.S., such as a cease-fire or massive withdrawals by a specified date-and Nixon called for none of these. Though he refrained from mentioning or endorsing the Saigon regime, his promise that...
...most positive response so far to Brandt's overtures has come from the country that suffered most under Nazi occupation: Poland. The Polish press, which normally rails at West Germany as a haven of unregenerated Nazis, called Brandt's inaugural address a "step forward." The Polish trade mission to West Germany has also started bargaining for an economic agreement that goes far beyond any deal previously negotiated by an East Bloc nation with the West. Totaling nearly $1 billion, the deal would give Poland access to West German credit, production licenses, patents and marketing procedure in return...
...most prized legacy, the Philadelphia Inquirer, to live the rest of his life in the City of Brotherly Love and to uphold "the great traditions" of the newspaper. Annenberg stopped living in Philadelphia this past April when his long friendship with Richard Nixon got him a new address in London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Last week he announced he was also giving up the Inquirer. He sold both the morning Inquirer and its sister paper, the afternoon Daily News, to Knight Newspapers for about $55 million...
...these words, President Nixon last week introduced a message to Congress outlining his "buyer's bill of rights." The authors of The Jungle and Silent Spring, in fact, had less to do with the message than a man who was not mentioned: Ralph Nader. Nixon's address testified to the growing power of consumerism, and of Nader, the lone crusader who has become the leader of the consumer movement...