Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Restrained in tone, candid in content, almost Trumanesque in verbiage, Lyndon Johnson's fourth State of the Union address was a marked departure from the sagebrush grandiloquence that has infused most of his major pronouncements as President...
...only by its circumspection, the President's address seemed to rebut speculation that he would not seek another term. Rather, Lyndon Johnson was clearly intent on showing his critics that he has a steady hand on the controls at a difficult period in U.S. history. It is, in Johnson's words, "a time of testing, a time of transition"-for himself no less than for the nation...
President Johnson has also divined the latent obstacles, and in his State of the Union address he pointedly avoided several prickly proposals that could stir up the membership. These included repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law's famed 14-B (right-to-work) section, rent subsidies and tough new civil rights proposals...
...short-story writing, then returned to Stanford and switched to psychology. Before he garnered his degree he garnered a wife, a petite, dark-eyed Guatemalan girl named Aida Marroquin. When they first met, she knew practically no English and he could say nothing in Spanish but the Gettysburg Address, which he had learned in a class. They corresponded for two years while she was back in Guatemala-and he was improving his Spanish-and then were married...
Sprawl & Smog. Washington's Daniel Evans, one of the most dynamic of the young Republican Governors, observed, in a mid-term address to the legislature, that his state now faces the explosive growth that California has experienced. He asked for more and better state and local planning as well as for a department of transportation and an environmental quality commission to make sure that the state does not suffer from sprawl and smog. Love proposed similar action for Colorado, gloomily noting that the present "evidence is that we are in the process of destroying much of our natural environment...