Word: jr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jason Robards Jr. narrates a documentary on the scenes and people celebrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway. The program includes readings by Rod Steiger and Estelle Parsons and a performance by Antonio Ordóñez, the bullfighter who was immortalized in The Dangerous Summer. Repeat...
...obligatory, but others under less compulsion to be generous to the winner after a close campaign also indicated a readiness to withhold judgment. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, a loyal Wallace man, sent congratulations to "my President." So did George Meany, while Walter Reuther, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney Young Jr. expressed good wishes. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a special target for Nixon during the campaign, said there should now be "no recriminations...
...this week's New York Times Mag azine, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. allows that he finds Nixon more palatable as a President-elect than as a candidate, and concludes: "If Mr. Nixon can really listen to the diversity of ideas, agonies and hopes in this great and turbulent land, he may yet achieve the capacity to move beyond himself and to serve the nation and the world." Columnist Max Lerner, another longtime Nixon critic, wrote sympathetically that the President-elect "will need all the help he can get from all of us," and proposed that his opponents "meet...
...victory speech-"Bring us together"-Nixon also played host to a diverse cast of characters. In a single day, his guests at the Pierre included A.T.& T. Ex-Chairman Frederick Kappel, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Richard Helms, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. After his meeting, Young quipped, in a reference to Nixon's neglect of the Negro during his campaign: "I wanted to make sure the 'forgotten Americans' he's been talking about get together with the 'forgotten Americans' I'm talking about...
Raymond K. Price Jr., 38, and Patrick J. Buchanan Jr., 30, will be special assistants. During the campaign both served as speechwriters and idea men. They are expected to do much the same work in the White House. Price was once a LIFE reporter, later joined the old New York Herald Tribune and rose to become its chief editorial writer. Buchanan was an editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...