Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thursday morning, Ford crossed Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House, where he presented Medals of Honor to families of seven soldiers who had been killed in Viet Nam. By now, Washington was swept by rumors of Nixon's imminent resignation. Cheering and applauding crowds assembled to catch glimpses of Ford. Then, shortly after 11, Ford was summoned to the Oval Office, where Nixon told him of his decision to resign. Immediately after that meeting, Ford called Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I would like to talk to you some time this afternoon," he said. "I want to talk to you about...
...Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy...
...scandal. But, Gesell told Ehrlichman, except for "the many affirmative aspects of your life, the sentence would have been far more severe." Ehrlichman had told Gesell earlier: "I believe that I am the only one in this room who really knows if I am guilty or not guilty. Your Honor, I am innocent of each and every one of the charges in this case." Unmoved, Gesell snapped back: "The court accepts the verdict of the jury." Gesell characterized the Fielding break-in as a "shameful episode in American history...
...Serge Koussevitzky Centennial Day at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., and the Boston Symphony Orchestra staged a celebration in honor of its late great conductor. Participants included Koussevitzky's most famous pupil, Leonard Bernstein, 55, who on doctors' orders conducted only two programs. Just three weeks before Lenny had been hospitalized in Bridgeport, Conn., suffering from a shortness of breath; no diagnosis of his illness has been made public. One music lover who stopped by at Tanglewood to give him a big hug: Joan Kennedy, recently returned from a rest and therapy session at Connecticut's Silver Hill...
...Soviets' Methuselah cult is explainable in social and political rather than medical terms, says Medvedev. In the hotbeds of centenarianism, the aged are venerated and may even have postage stamps issued in their honor. The cult's prominence in Georgia was fostered by Georgian-born Stalin, who apparently began to hope, at around age 70, that longevity might...