Word: confidenceâ
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...Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu and spelling out the common ground between Washington and Saigon, he tried to underline the solidarity of the two governments in the face of Communist efforts to divide and conquer. In giving more combat responsibility to the South Vietnamese, Nixon advertised U.S. confidence???such as it is?in the combat readiness of Saigon's forces. He aims to convince the Communists that they must negotiate with Thieu and not hold out in the expectation of dealing with a more malleable successor. If Nixon can dull dissent at home while maintaining pressure...
...magazines, he also became a public figure who spoke out on public issues. Luce broke publicly with Roosevelt and the New Deal in 1937. In a speech to a group of Ohio bankers, he declared that the Depression was continuing because of a lack of business confidence???and that that lack of confidence had been caused by Roosevelt's basing "his political popularity on the implication that business is antisocial, unpatriotic, vulgar and corruptive...
...minutes later the Cabinet risked a second vote of confidence???not involving the Catholic issue?and increased their majority from 71 to 79. After one of the longest crises in French History, there was again a Government. With Tardieu and Briand in the saddle, the new Cabinet seemed certain to pursue the same conservative financial program and broadly pacific foreign policy which have been standard for three years under the Governments of Poincare (July 1926-July 1929) and Briand (July-October...
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