Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Marcos stepped up to a small podium beneath the Speaker's desk in the House to address a joint session of Congress, he regained the spotlight with a carefully reasoned plea for a continued U.S. presence in Asia (see ESSAY). "Today we send our sons in total commitment to South Viet Nam on an errand of mercy, although we face the retaliation of armed Communism in our own land," he said. Eying Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright who sat-on his hands -a few rows away, he said: "We note a hesitancy, some frustration...
Perhaps not. But with the possible exception of Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Kennedy is the most-talked-about politician in the U.S. today, and the most sought after. More than 1,000 letters cascade into his office daily, including a recent premature request for a copy of his inaugural address, and at least 50 invitations to appear as a speaker. Last week in Austin, practically on the President's front porch, 8,000 Texas farm laborers and sympathizers campaigning for a $1.25 minimum wage burst into a spontaneous cheer: "Viva Kennedy!" In Boston, a crowd of 5,000 turned...
...advanced educational and medical techniques we can salvage tens of thousands of these men each year, first for productive military careers and later for productive roles in society." In a speech in Montreal last May, McNamara warned that pauper nations endanger world peace and thus U.S. security. His V.F.W. address brought this thinking home: "Poverty in America affects our national security, too, by its appalling waste of talent...
...name comes from the M.P.A.A.'s Washington address, 1600 I Street, just four blocks from Jack's old office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
What the papers decided on was precisely what the bar has been urging. Until a case comes to trial, the papers pledge to print only the name, age and address of the accused, plus a description of the arrest and the charge, and the identity of the complainant. The papers also promise not to print any criminal record of the accused, or any confession he has allegedly made, until the case is concluded. Nor will they publish any statement by public officials that may hurt the accused in court. Arguments made in court in the absence of the jury...