Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorry, but we have no openings in that field at the present time. As you know, we are an equal opportunities employer. We will put your application on file. Check back with me in six months or so and perhaps I may be able to do something for you. Come in and see me any time. Good...
...drive a Fiat, and I live at a much slower pace. I spend lots of idle hours on lonely roads wondering when the tow truck will come, or sitting at the repair shop waiting for the mechanic to explain why the door handle fell off, the clutch cable snapped, and the horn doesn't work on a car that's only three months...
...need not have bothered. In recent weeks, Billy Graham has come on like a White House chaplain-in-residence. Perhaps following the Pauline precept-becoming all things to all men that he might by all means save some-Graham returned to the White House as the Johnsons' guest the weekend before L.B.J. left office. He reappeared at Nixon's inauguration to deliver a prayer that sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House. After all, Graham had urged Nixon to make the race in 1968, and had been...
...many, the fact that Nixon has even a mild sense of humor comes as a surprise. And, in fact, the President did come by the gift of laughter, in public anyway, rather late in life. Perhaps because he felt he had to counterbalance his youth with seriousness for so many years-he was, at 39, the second youngest U.S. Vice President in history-Nixon was until last year the paradigm of sobriety. Then, at about the same time that people started talking about the new Nixon, he began sprinkling his speeches with one-liners...
...expert on the business cycle. His warning: a recession was under way, and would reach its nadir in October, just before the presidential elections. "Unfortunately," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "Arthur Burns turned out to be a good prophet. The bottom of the 1960 dip did come in October. All the speeches, television broadcasts and precinct work in the world could not counteract that one hard fact...