Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fraught with Hazards. It was against this background that Westmoreland returned to the U.S. In fact, a group of Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, had urged Johnson more than a year ago to bring the general home to address Congress on the war. The President demurred at the time. Last March, when Associated Press President Paul Miller asked Johnson during a luncheon whether it might be possible for Westmoreland to address the news services' annual luncheon, the answer was yes-if the exigencies of the war allowed...
Westmoreland's address was a sober, thoughtful review of the war. He offered no simplistic solutions. "I foresee, in the months ahead, some of the bitterest fighting of the war," he warned. In response to a question, he said that he did not see "any end of the war in sight. It's going to be a question of putting maximum pressure on the enemy anywhere and everywhere that we can. We will have to grind him down. In effect, we are fighting a war of attrition...
Political Gagman Art Buchwald got the star billing, of course. But still, Bill Moyers, 32, won his share of the laughs when he rose to address the Women's National Press Club in Washington. Now working as publisher of Long Island's Newsday, which is owned by Captain Harry Guggenheim, Moyers told the "true inside story" of how he came to leave the White House. "The President called me in one day and said: 'Bill, when you took over as press secretary, the polls were 60-40 for me. Now they're 40-60 against...
...reply. "I feel that the future will have to answer this for itself-both as to my aspirations and my fate should I have the privilege of occupying the White House. I daresay, should anyone take this phenomenon to heart, anyone, that is, who aspires to change his address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that most probably the landlord would be left from 1960-64 with a 'For Rent' sign hanging on the gatehouse door. Sincerely, John F. Kennedy." Last week New York Representative Seymour Halpern, who had acquired the letter from an autograph dealer, donated it to Manhattan...
...military set out to form a new government. In a brief and simple ceremony, the new rulers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Archbishop and Primate of Greece. To show his disapproval, King Constantine did not attend the ceremony, refused to take to the radio to address the people...