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...this was symbolized by President Nixon's second press conference, in which-using neither lectern nor notes-he held forth with a confidence that left no room for even his initial display of nervousness. He spoke mainly of foreign affairs, and opened by announcing that he will spend a week on a working tour of the capitals of Western Europe at the end of this month. Secretary of State William Rogers and Presidential Assistant Henry Kissinger will go along, though Nixon aims to meet tête-aà-tête with the heads of government in Belgium...
Unfinished Business. Johnson won a 31-minute standing ovation when he strode into the House chamber behind Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller and stood behind the lectern, nodding and smiling to acknowledge the applause. Then, pleading yet proud, he recited some of his Administration's achievements at home: Medicare, three far-reaching civil rights laws on housing and voting, job programs that have trained 5,000,000, the lowest unemployment in nearly 20 years (3.3%), more than 1,500,000 college students on federal scholarships, Project Head Start for preschool children, support for pupils below college level...
...TIME BUCK WHITE starts as a genial put-on with five officers of a Black Power group ricocheting around the stage in an orgy of black humor. It becomes a cold put-down with the arrival at the lectern of Dick Williams as Buck White. Answering questions from the audience that are designed to give Whitey the message about Black Power, he is more of a bore than a bombshell after the antics of the five clowns...
...TIME BUCK WHITE starts as a genial put-on with five officers of a Black Power group ricocheting around the stage in an orgy of black humor. It becomes a cold put-down with the arrival at the lectern of Dick Williams as Buck White. Answering questions from the audience that are designed to give Whitey the message about Black Power, he is more of a bore than a bombshell after the antics of the five clowns. The entire cast has been with the play since the beginning-including a four-month run in Los Angeles' embattled Watts district...
...minor fluffs during his unrehearsed half-hour stand-up performance at the Shoreham. He forgot to name Maurice Stans as he introduced his Secretary of Commerce, and he referred to President Kennedy's "first inaugural"; there was, of course, only one. But he spoke without notes or lectern, in marked contrast to the wrap-around electronic prompters Lyndon Johnson regularly uses. Because of the ease and experience that he gained on camera in the 1968 campaign, he plans to make repeated informal use of TV in his Administration to get even closer to U.S. firesides than Franklin Roosevelt...