Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the Communists' savage Tet offensive against the cities of South Viet Nam, Lyndon Johnson launched what Washington officials subsequently labeled an "AtoZ" review of the war. This week, in a prime-time Sunday evening television address to the nation, the President made clear that the reappraisal had been far more definitive than had been expected. In a dramatic and unexpected turnabout, he announced what he called "a unilateral step toward deescalation." Its major feature, he said, would be a halt in all U.S.' aerial and naval bombardment of North Viet Nam. Only that portion adjacent...
Midnight Draft. At the same time, the President began formulating his Sunday address. Working with him on the speech were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, White House Aides Walt Rostow Harry McPherson and George Christian. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stall, was consulted. Also at Johnson's side, surprisingly, was Robert S. McNamara...
...typical that when Charles Lindbergh made his first public appearance in a decade, he chose one of the nation's farthest reaches. Lindy, now 66, was in Juneau to address the Alaska legislature on a topic touching him deeply: the need to conserve the state's wildlife. The Lone Eagle argued that Alaska should do away with bounties on wolves, coyotes and seals, and make it illegal for hunters to shoot from airplanes or trucks. "Alaska is one of the key areas of the world," said he. "But with extreme changes taking place, the people are in danger...
...back" was the word yesterday as JOHN U. MONRO '35, the mythical former dean of Harvard College, made the Cambridge scene. He's in town to address the American Association of Internal Medicine tomorrow at the Statler Hilton in Boston...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science, Staughton Lynd of Yale, and Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. will address the 11 a.m. rally in the Boston Common...