Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson, in his fourth State of the Union message, insists that civilians "are not the sole target for our bombs." The Long Island newspaper Newsday hails Johnson's address as "a magnificent testament...
Soldier's Duty. Thus when West Germany's new Foreign Minister Willy Brandt arrived in Paris for the NATO talks, he came as the representative of a thrusting, questioning government. De Gaulle received Brandt for an hour's chat, praised the Chancellor's address, invited Kiesinger to come to Paris next month. In an unusual display of geniality, De Gaulle authorized Brandt to tell the press that the meeting had been "très cordial...
...Charlotte, N.C., to address a Chamber of Commerce dinner, Romney took on the Southerners in their own territory. "As far as I am concerned," he said, "states have no rights. Only people have rights. I know that some of those who shout the loudest about states' rights are laggards in state responsibility. Obstructionism masquerading as states' rights is the height of folly." Then he flew to New York, where he held a full-blown, big-league press conference during which he knocked the Johnson Administration's economic policy ("We should have had a tax increase a year...
...chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world's nations stood in knots on the floor as British Foreign Secretary George Brown began to address the Council. His mission was the product of failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations -which began to fall apart 30 years ago when it proved unable to enforce economic...
...allowing the Georgia legislature to elect the governor, the Court has retreated from the position it enunciated clearly in its decision on the county unit system: "The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysberg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing -- one person, one vote...