Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Joseph Kasavubu, who saw in Tshombe a powerful potential rival for his own job as President. During his five-year term, which ends in December, Kasavubu had used his constitutional powers to hire and fire three Premiers, and he seemed to be moving against Moise. In a radio broadcast...
...This will be a historical day. At 9:00 o'clock this morning, I must make a broadcast to the country announcing the German surrender. Isn't that some birthday present?" So wrote Harry S. Truman to his mother on his 61st birthday just 20 years ago. It was his 26th day as President of the United States. Celebrating the anniversary of that day this year at his annual birthday luncheon in Kansas City, Mo., Harry smilingly accepted a million-dollar pledge for the Truman Library Institute, where scholars study the history he made. But what really turned...
...were expecting to meet at the White House to complain about the President's increasing pre-emption of prime TV time on short notice. Instead of a meeting, Johnson produced a new short-notice request. As soon as possible, he said, he wanted to use Early Bird to broadcast a V-E anniversary speech direct to Europe. Three and one-half hours later, in a slow and measured drawl, he was chiding Charles de Gaulle live on British and Italian TV screens, and being taped for later rebroadcast in almost every other European nation...
...afternoon portion from Washington will also be broadcast over WGBH...
...graduation, he went to work for educational organizations and in 1935 was hired by CBS. Sent to Europe to line up cultural programs, he was on an assignment in Warsaw when he got word of the Nazi Anschluss. Hastily chartering a plane to Vienna, he arrived in time to broadcast the Nazi takeover. After this triumph, CBS installed him as a permanent commentator in London...