Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliver his final State of the Union message in person; the last President to do so was John Adams in 1800. Lyndon Johnson had a special reason for his decision, which he confessed was "just pure sentimental." He is a child of the Congress, and he was at home again for the last time as President. "Most all of my life as a public official has been spent here in this building," he said. "For 38 years, since I worked in that gallery as a doorkeeper in the House of Representatives, I have known these halls and I have known...
Unfinished Business. Johnson won a 31-minute standing ovation when he strode into the House chamber behind Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller and stood behind the lectern, nodding and smiling to acknowledge the applause. Then, pleading yet proud, he recited some of his Administration's achievements at home: Medicare, three far-reaching civil rights laws on housing and voting, job programs that have trained 5,000,000, the lowest unemployment in nearly 20 years (3.3%), more than 1,500,000 college students on federal scholarships, Project Head Start for preschool children, support for pupils below college level...
...were irreverently-but accurately-described. Though some are wealthy, most live unostentatiously. While one, Red Blount, is a qualified jet pilot, none of them is by any stretch a jet-setter. Their mode of living is mainly suburban middleclass, with strong emphasis on family life and informal entertaining at home. A possible exception to the pattern is New York Investment Banker Maurice Stans, the new Secretary of Commerce, who lives in a Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking Central Park and hunts big game in East Africa; he and his wife Kathleen prefer taking their friends out to top restaurants for dinner...
...country quickly learned to live with a cold war, making rather enlightened attempts to maintain peace and justice in the postwar world. To achieve world stability, the U.S. concentrated on foreign policy-a sign of growing maturity in a once isolationist nation -and let economic and educational growth at home more or less take care of themselves. They did, but not always for the best...
...nation until recently did not have the aroused conscience to use its financial resources to deal with myriad problems at home. Now it should be able and willing to solve them. Still, what may really hold America back is precisely what has pushed it forward: the American's prized and highly developed sense of individualism, which can amount to plain selfishness. This is a relative matter; many Europeans, with their deep class conflicts, tend to be far more selfish than people in the U.S. But Americans, particularly in times of rapid and threatening change, have turned protectively in upon...