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That view will be vastly different from the one that Johnson beheld twelve short months ago. Then, riding the tide of an unprecedented victory at the polls, the President looked around and saw a nation ripe for his brand of consensus politics. Then he had something to offer almost everyone-voting rights for the Negro, a tax cut for the wage earner, continued prosperity for business. Since then, the nation's problems have grown more complex and the solutions less easy. Where once compromise and cajolery worked, many hard choices are now required-choices that could alienate some elements...
...Bonjour, Michel Jazy!" boomed the voice from a considerable height. Looking up, and up, France's world mile record holder beheld none other than old Track Fan Charles de Gaulle, 74. "You ran a beautiful 5,000-meter race Saturday against the Russians," said the President, in a rare mood as he visited the National Sports Institute in Paris' Bois de Vincennes. "Of course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France...
Although they sent home a fortune in furs, the colonists were repaid largely with official indifference and hostility. "It is for traders to traffic where they please," pronounced the Empress Catherine. "I will furnish no men, ships, or money." Not until 1810, nearly 70 years after Russian eyes first beheld America, did a ship from the imperial navy enter New Archangel harbor, and then only with mischief in mind. Its captain, one Vasilii Golovnin, coveted the lucrative colony, which was in the hands of businessmen. In time, the navy pulled its rank and took control. Aleksandr Baranov, resident manager...
...keep hope in our vision, let's move on to conquer unknown frontiers." > "I have traveled around the world and I have been in many countries and I have seen the glories of art and architecture. But the most beautiful vision that these eyes ever beheld was that American flag in a foreign land...
...said Sayre, "that thousands, even millions, of our countrymen this summer, viewing the extravaganzas that were produced at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and at Convention Hall in Atlantic City, felt something like the Israelites must have felt when finally they were thrust into exile . . . This summer we beheld a pair of gatherings at the summit of political power, each of which was completely dominated by a single man-the one, a man of dangerous ignorance and devastating uncertainty; the other, a man whose public house is splendid in its every appearance, but whose private lack of ethic must...