Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DETROIT. Coleman Alexander Young's first speech as mayor was blunt and to the point. Squinting into the bright glare of TV lights in the Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, he declared: "I issue an open warning right now to all dope pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit. I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Super Fly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges: Hit the road...
They carried sardonic, sometimes blunt placards that demanded the impeachment of Richard Nixon but also cried confidently that THE SPIRIT OF '76 LIVES...
H.S.T.'s Blunt Speech...
...wonder if it isn't better to speak as Chief Executive with a plain tongue rather than a forked one. Truman evaluated things as he saw them and verbally put his cards on the table in a truthful, if sometimes blunt fashion...
...having told the former President about his plans to turn their conversations into a book eventually, but adds: "I think he suspected I'd write it up some day. He was thinking about his place in history." From Miller's interviews, some of Harry Truman's blunt thoughts about the men who shared his times...