Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of this was campaign oratory and how much a blueprint for a Nixon Administration remains to be seen. On Viet Nam, Nixon has promised to provide "fresh ideas and new men and new leadership" to end the war. He prides himself on his grasp of foreign policy and is expected to act pretty much as his own Secretary of State- after a thoroughgoing shakedown at Foggy Bottom. According to his staff, he will increase Government spending from the current annual level of $185 billion to $220 billion by the end of his four-year Administration. Defense spending would increase...
...equipment, emphasized that "if the conviction rate were doubled in this country, it would do more to eliminate crime than quadrupling of the funds for any governmental war on poverty." He also promised to appoint a new Attorney General who would fight crime with the "kind of aggressive leadership that Ulysses S. Grant brought to the flagging Northern cause in the Civil War," and hinted that his Supreme Court appointees would place less emphasis on the rights of criminal defendants than has the Warren Court. An Activist View...
...Soviet youth. There is no war and no revolution to chal lenge the present generation, and many young Russians find indoctrination a bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people into their nets to blunt their class and revo lutionary vigilance with false arguments of a bourgeois liberal nature." After that...
Under the persuasive leadership of Superintendent Neil Sullivan and a five-man school board, Berkeley last September began bussing 2,000 white elementary pupils out of wooded, hillside suburbs to once heavily Negro schools in the flatlands near San Francisco Bay. About 2,000 black children move in the opposite direction. Another 2,000 students of each race were shifted to other schools within walking distance of their homes. The aim of all the trans fers was to make sure that each of Berkeley's 14 elementary schools has between 36% and 45% black enrollment. This closely matches...
...cannot in good conscience plead for fair procedures, the elimination of discrimination and the right of free expression for black Americans when the N.A.A.C.P.'s leadership is so hypocritical and lacking in integrity as to disregard those standards in its own affairs...