Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign affairs, says Moynihan, there is something almost Orwellian about the transformation of the word liberal to mean the opposite of what it meant a decade or so ago. John Kennedy's inaugural address, which declared that the U.S. would defend freedom around the globe, was celebrated at the time. Now liberals oppose intervention...
Blacks tend to find more significance in Carter's performance as Governor than in his campaign rhetoric. To many, the words of his inaugural address-"I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over"-signaled a new era in racial relations not just in Georgia but in the entire South. It was more than rhetoric. Carter was the first Georgia Governor to appoint large numbers of blacks to important posts in the state. He startled Georgia's rednecks by ordering a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. hung alongside likenesses of prominent whites...
...wounds were reopening; the Watergate debate was reviving. Henry Kissinger scoffed at the notion that he had ever called Richard Nixon "our meatball President. " En route to Dallas to deliver a foreign policy address, he asked: "What does that mean-meatball, meat head? I never used the word like that." Was Nixon drinking a lot and contemplating suicide as Watergate brought him down? "I saw no evidence of it, "said President Gerald Ford as he campaigned in Fresno, Calif. Had James St. Clair, Nixon 's chief Watergate attorney, flown off to Boston at a critical time without listening...
...repeated familiar complaints about past U.S. errors and about Henry Kissinger for operating "personally and in secret," but in general was balanced. Carter made the ritual bow to the Middle East crisis: "The U.S. should ensure Israel's security while at the same time encouraging both sides to address themselves to the substance of a genuine agreement." He also endorsed "the objectives of detente" but faulted Kissinger "for giving up too much and asking for too little" in negotiations on limiting nuclear arms. On the other hand, Carter rapped Jackson's hard line by rejecting "the strident...
...rebound. Until about six weeks ago, surveys showed that Republicans were gloomy about the future; now most of them believe that the U.S. is back on the tracks. As a result, even conservatives are voting for Ford by top-heavy majorities. Since his State of the Union address in January, Ford has not been forced to make a decision that would offend any bloc of voters-an almost incredible run of luck that Hollywood's game Gipper had no way of overcoming...