Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unseasonably balmy weather is predicted for Inauguration Day itself, in happy contrast to the eight inches of snow that buried Washington just before the Kennedy Inauguration eight years ago. After Nixon takes the oath from Chief Justice Earl Warren at noon on the Capitol steps and delivers his inaugural address, the two-hour parade-shortest in memory, timed to end while there is still enough light for color-television cameras-will get under way up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and their families will watch from a heated presidential box enclosed in bulletproof glass; lesser...
Somber and Unsure. Nixon's main preoccupation was drafting his inaugural address, which he is writing out on lined yellow legal pads. At week's end his Cabinet members assembled in New York at the Pierre hotel headquarters for two days of briefings with the heads of 21 task forces that have been studying the problems facing the incoming Administration. Henry Loomis, director of the policy task force, let it be known that there would be no sudden departures. "Don't expect dramatic shifts or changes," said Loomis. "Maybe Nixon will be able to slow down...
...Richard Nixon labored over his inaugural address last week, a group of three top aides headed by Attorney General-designate John Mitchell carried on with the task of screening candidates for the 6,500 jobs within the President-elect's gift. Some choices...
...were his hyperbolic promises persuasive for very long. In his first State of the Union address, he promised "all-out war on poverty," plus "more homes and more schools and more libraries and more hospitals." The clincher: "All this and more can be done without any increase in spending. It can be done by this summer." Last week Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told Congress that another $1 billion was needed to feed the millions of people still so poor that they are literally going hungry...
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S farewell State of the Union address was very much the kind of performance that we've come to expect from him. The address was full of the old familiar LBJisms--his assurances that peace is closer than ever, his juggled financial statistics, his flagwaving reference to our troops in Asia, his understandable concern over his own place in history...