Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be cast as anyone's bad guys. Today, a sizable enough minority, especially among the young, sees the Establishment-notably the military-as uniformly villainous. It would be helpful for everyone to demythologize his thinking instead of nourishing absolute images of good guys and bad guys. Or better yet, to settle all disputes between the two with Frisbees instead of missiles...
...better or worse, the speech would be his own-all his own. As he worked past midnight in his hideaway study in the Executive Office Building and in isolation at Camp David, there were no proposed drafts, no stacks of memos, no turgid position papers to help. "He's writing it himself-with his pen on his little yellow pad," confided Communications Director Herb Klein. Although he may not have wanted it that way, President Nixon's speech on Viet Nam this week had shaped up as one of the most important of his Administration to date...
...right to fight anywhere," he said. He insisted that "American imperialism is behind all actions hostile to the Arab nation." Playing on the pride of the Lebanese in their business acumen, he warned that unless Israel is wiped out, "it is bound to be proved that Israelis are better businessmen than Lebanese...
...policy, outlined before the Inter-American Press Association in Washington, called for a more balanced partnership rather than an American-dominated alliance. From now on, the President promised, the U.S. would listen more and lecture less; it would be "guided by a healthy awareness that give-and-take is better than take-it-or-leave...
...have the leadership now, you know. Suddenly, our people are getting educations. In 1967 only 350 Mexicans were going to U.C.L.A.; now there are a thousand. This can make a revolution. We are demanding Mexican cultural studies in grade schools and high schools, and bilingual education. We are demanding better housing and jobs now. We will fight and picket and sit-in until we get them. And we will have our confrontations with the police, too, and they will be worse than those of the blacks because there are 2,000,000 of us here...