Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enemy. Nixon chose not to deliver a detailed catalogue of policies and programs. His underlying themes were conciliation and equity at home, the quest for peace abroad. "Those who have been left out," he said, "we will try to bring in. Those who have been left behind, we will help to catch up." To foreign friends and adversaries, he extended this hope: "Because the people of the world want peace and the leaders are afraid of war, the times are on the side of peace. Let us take as our goal: Where peace is unknown, to make it welcome. Where...
...standing among scholars of the presidency is no higher now than it was among the people then. Last week Johnson, the 36th President of the U.S., took his own leave of a nation disenchanted with a far-off war and deeply perturbed by its myriad problems at home. His apologia was not abject like Grant's, but his peroration contained a latter-day echo of it. "I hope it may be said a hundred years from now," Johnson told the Congress, "that by working together we helped to make our country more just. That's what I hope...
...Ford or President Pusey) would be limited because of time restrictions to recognizing one or two of the many enthusiastically raised hands. As a result, some student positions might be overrepresented while others might receive no voice at all. And most students who went intending to speak would trek home disappointed. Once it is decided that restriction is necessary, a single clearing-house seems to be administratively convenient, and SFAC is the best clearing-house because its student members are elected and it is a Faculty committee...
SPECIAL TOPICAL BONUS QUESTION: What is Joe Namath's home town...
...applause for Johnson had little to do with the things that most people think to be important. The Johnson stewardship has been a disaster. At home there is more bitterness, more violence, more disintegration than anyone has ever known. Johnson's endless war has cost 30,000 American lives, but the American Empire is less secure today than when Johnson became its ruler. Even the Congressmen who still support the war are aware that something has gone drastically wrong, that America, for one reason or another, is in terrible trouble. While Johnson spoke, the USS Enterprise, the largest ship ever...