Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon tried to hold his more routine appointments down to steal time for the speech. Lunch on several days was off a tray. Not since he secluded himself to draft the speech accepting his party's nomination had he devoted himself so totally to a writing job. He kept the content to himself, brushing off even the specific questioning of Republican congressional leaders at their weekly White House breakfast. He revealed only that the speech would be a review of "where we've been, where we are and where we're going...
...years nobody has really done anything about it until this Administration came to power. We have offered the most revolutionary legislation in the history of the republic in this respect." That legislation includes proposals for revenue-sharing with the states, welfare reforms and decentralized control of job-training programs...
...effete corps of impudent snobs." But it was a mild pique, and Nixon went out of his way last week to praise Agnew publicly. Assessing Agnew's performance in office when they both appeared at a Republican National Committee conference, Nixon declared: "He's done a great job...
...took the kids off the streets, taught them music and now they're the best in the state. We've got a woman from the New England Conservatory teaching them and she's doing a real good job. It takes a lot of money to keep going. We have cake bakes and spaghetti dinners. Al has helped us a lot, too. Without him we wouldn't be able to do much...
...taken up and you know what that means to everybody here. You're all at the mercy of those two schools. They've brought lots of students here, swelled the population and forced up the rents. Prices are going up, taxes too. It's getting so that one job isn't enough to keep you going these days. You've got to have THREE jobs...