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...local color it might be worthwhile to station yourself on Prospect Avenue before the Princeton Band marches by, swelling its ranks with students and alumni pouring out of the eating clubs lining the street. If you are especially fortunate you will hear the natives sing their song "Old Nassau." In any case, the game begins at 1:30 p.m. and it's important to be there on time for Our National Anthem and the kickoff...
Dropout. Discharged from the hospital after five months, Coats returned home to his family and tried to resume his education by enrolling in general studies at Nassau Community College. Four times he had to go back to the hospital, however, once for five months. He dropped out of college, partly because the commuting was too difficult. "Even at home," he says, "it's like being in the hospital...
Nixon told his Nassau County audience what he had told the press earlier in the day: that he had some "bad news" for the "big spenders" in Congress who had not only ignored his demand last month for executive veto power over the Federal budget, but had also "jammed through" social welfare legislation which put the budget well over the $250 billion ceiling Nixon had demanded...
...news" was a Nixon pledge to use "my full legal powers" to keep the budget under $250 billion. For once, Nixon acted quickly on a campaign promise. Four days after his Nassau speech, Nixon vetoed nine bills, including the entire Department of Health Education and Welfare and Department of Labor appropriations. Also vetoed on the Nixon "budget-breaker" list were appropriations for: flood control projects; improved burial and cemetary benefits for veterans; expanded health care facilities at Veterans Administration Hospitals; vocational rehabilitation programs for people so handicapped that they cannot work; and public works projects to bring jobs...
...Nassau County audience realized that Nixon was announcing his intention to use dictatorial powers? When Nixon told the middle class suburban voters that "there is no higher priority with me than protecting our people against higher prices and higher taxes" had the audience understood that what Nixon meant was that their pocketbooks and his re-election chances had a higher priority than wounded Vietnam veterans, flood victims, and paraplegics...