Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Machine-Gun Bursts. The President's principal preoccupation was the impending State of the Union address and the budget message. So determined was he to shroud the drafting of the State of the Union speech in secrecy that he waited until week's end to announce when he would deliver it-right after Congress convenes this week, in a night-time appearance designed to draw a large television audience...
...Greater freedom in picking outside speakers to address campus audiences;S-4ROGER W. HEYNS, Chancellor...
...invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...
...proposed tax increase, the one expected point in the President's address, would be in the form of a six per cent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes. This means simply that all taxpayers (expert for lower-income heads of families and single persons earning less than $1900 per year) would pay an additional six per cent of their present tax assessments...
...past, it has also been traditional for a President to leak some significant elements of his State of the Union address so that incoming Congressmen might have some notice of what to expect. Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who leaves to be come publisher of Newsday in February, has already completed several drafts of the address, and flew down to the ranch last week to talk it over with Johnson. Yet there have been no meaningful hints about what Johnson intends to concentrate on, and the silence has led, in fact, to speculation that the State of the Union address...