Word: beene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boxed In. Even Administration officials conceded that the early announcement (Oct. 13) of the speech had been a tactical mistake. It had allowed speculation about sensational new offers of breakthroughs to soar. It gave critics time to offer public suggestions that created new pressure and expectations. A few critics expressed...
Partisan Outing. In both New Jersey and Virginia, the President's enthusiastic fans far outnumbered the peace demonstrators. In Salem, Va., Nixon jumped onstage to do a jig with G.O.P. Candidate Linwood Holton. Three times Nixon tried to start his speech, only to be halted by sustained ovations. When...
Nixon clearly enjoyed the partisan outing. His arms held aloft to acknowledge applause, his brisk rhetoric-even many of the lines-were part of last year's familiar campaign platform performances. Only one thing had changed: Nixon omitted the two-fingered V-sign with which he had once signaled...
"With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy...
Catastrophe. In a sense, the Nixon Administration brought last week's ruling upon itself. Last July, Nixon settled upon a desegregation policy that would concentrate upon progress through court orders rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from...