Word: heals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gags. In his meeting with congressional leaders, he promised frequent consultations, but when he met the press, he was critical of the legislature. Congress, he said, had not been "responsible on money." What really aroused his ire, though, was a question on whether recent calls for a healing of the nation's wounds might lead to an amnesty for draft resisters. Nixon glowered, gripped both sides of the lectern and hunched low over the microphone. "Well," he said, "it takes two to heal wounds, and I must say that when I see the most vigorous criticism or, shall...
...peace with honor," but it is a dubious and troubling phrase to apply to Viet Nam. No matter what honor the U.S. could still extract from that cruel battleground, honor must now be sought at home as much as abroad. As Kissinger put it in his briefing: "Together with healing the wounds in Indochina, we can begin to heal the wounds in America...
...says a presidential aide, "the potential is there for creative tension instead of destructive disagreement." Much will depend on how the President shifts from a wartime to a peacetime leader; whether he ignores the bitter internal divisions left by the war or tries to heal them; whether he treats Congress as an enemy or a partner; whether he uses his electoral mandate as an excuse to close himself off or as an added reason to be open with the nation...
...Heal the angry wounds we anonymously inflict upon each other," he prayed over the thousands of bowed heads. He then introduced McCarthy, who spoke of the war and the peace movement, and recited some verse by Robert Lowell, including a poem entitled "This is the Country for the Young." He then introduced Leonard Bernstein...
...this newspaper called for support of the National Liberation Front. We continue to believe that of the committed political elements in Vietnam, the NLF is the only one which has shown itself capable of winning widespread popular support and the only one likely to heal Vietnam's wounds after so many years of war. The immediate political task at hand is to end American involvement in the war, opening the way to a political settlement among the Vietnamese...