Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relinquishing of the "I-labs-long an object of student protest-does not affect M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratories, which will continue to perform broader development research that is "not so close to the hardware." Albert G. Hill, M.I.T. research vice president. said yesterday...
Before dawn the next morning, Nixon impulsively wakened his valet and set off with a clutch of Secret Service men for the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked for an hour with a group of drowsy but astonished demonstrators. His discussion rambled over the sights of the world that he had seen ?Mexico City, the Moscow ballet, the cities of India. When the conversation turned to the war, Nixon told the students: "I know you think we are a bunch of so and so's." He said to them, the President recalled later, that "in 1939 I thought Neville Chamberlain...
...relations with J.F.K. as "friendly, cordial, but not personally intimate." Johnson conveyed the impression that he and Kennedy carried on a professional and political partnership, carefully adding: "We were not like brothers; we were not constant companions." He persuasively denied reports-by J.F.K.'s secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, for one-that Kennedy planned to replace him as vice-presidential candidate in 1964. It was well known that J.F.K. considered him vital in holding the South. Johnson also rejected-with less justification-contentions by Author William Manchester and others that there was friction with Kennedy people aboard Air Force...
...time the official rally ended at 3 p.m., at least a thousand had climbed into a reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, where they sang, splashed, and chanted slogans. Many young men and women took off all their clothes; two were later arrested for indecent exposure...
Early Saturday morning, after his press conference, Nixon paid a surprise visit to a startled group of students at the Lincoln Memorial. He discussed football with a student from Syracuse, and surfing with a girl from California. He said he had been unable to sleep...