Word: address
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebuff Ahead. Despite the importance of the Viet Nam speech, other events converged on the President demanding his attention. His address on Latin America, which proved more pragmatic than inspiring, drew a mixed response south of the border. The General Electric strike posed a threat to the economy (see THE WORLD and BUSINESS). Nixon was stung by the Supreme Court decision insisting on the instant school integration that he had earlier termed "extreme...
...course, Nixon knows that Agnew is not perfect. The President privately admitted that he thought Agnew had used "clumsy language" in some of his speeches. Nixon is described as "mildly upset" with the Vice President for his address on Oct. 19 in New Orleans, in which Agnew called the Moratorium supporters an "effete corps of impudent snobs." But it was a mild pique, and Nixon went out of his way last week to praise Agnew publicly. Assessing Agnew's performance in office when they both appeared at a Republican National Committee conference, Nixon declared: "He's done...
...Agnew aide, "We have a constituency of one to please and we wouldn't be doing this unless we were told to do so by the man." The aide said Nixon ordered Agnew to continue the assault. Agnew spent three days last week honing an anti-Moratorium address for a Republican fund-raising dinner in Harrisburg, Pa. Delivered before a highly partisan audience, Agnew's speech was a smashing success. In 26 minutes he was interrupted 23 times by applause. In many respects, the presentation was a defense of his earlier tirades. "A little over a week...
With all the casual calm of a Grand Canyon-on-your-left announcement, Pilot Donald Cook's voice came over the public-address system: "There's a man here who wants to go somewhere, and he's just chartered himself an airplane." The 39 passengers on TWA Flight 85, over Fresno and bound for San Francisco, suddenly realized that they had joined the growing ranks of the skyjacked. It was not simply the 55th case of skyjacking in 1969; it turned out to be the longest and oddest pirated flight in aviation history...
Reaction at Harvard to the President's address was skeptical. A spokesman for the Harvard Vietnam Moratorium Committee said the speech would do nothing to dampen anti-war sentiment. "What Nixon has tried to show is that there is a silent majority behind him. We know better...