Word: national
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...President and the ex-President exchanged confidences of state for an hour and ten minutes. Presidential Assistants John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman came by to help review the domestic situation with Johnson, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger joined the discussion of foreign affairs and Viet Nam. It was a replay in reverse of the White House meeting late in L.B.J.'s presidency at which Johnson briefed President-elect Nixon on the nation's problems. Nixon and Johnson rejoined their families in the villa for a roast-beef luncheon topped off with a three-tiered, lemon-filled birthday...
...congressional leaders. The legislators will hike the salaries of Agnew and House Speaker John McCormack to $62,500 and raise Dirksen and four others to $49,500. Inflation has pushed up the cost of living and entertaining, and the bill is designed to ensure that the nation's leadership cadre will not be forced into penury...
Nixon is expected to announce another troop withdrawal later this month. Though the White House bristles at any suggestion that the timing was more than coincidence, the Administration is obviously not sorry that it occurs when Congress convenes and the nation's colleges reopen. Nixon's main domestic pressure is to reduce the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam to a minimum. As last week's debate indicates, his freedom of action is somewhat circumscribed by the Communists, who have shown no willingness to accommodate him. If they continue to gun down his strategy of a phased, orderly...
Instead, it agreed to 1) call a conference of all Moslem nations, which may take months to organize, if it comes off at all; and 2) convene the 14-nation Joint Defense Council, but not until November. The four countries most deeply involved in the anti-Israel fight, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, may meet somewhat sooner to try to coordinate their efforts...
...novels, particularly The Tin Drum and Dog Years. Grass has also sought to prod Germans out of their complacency about the nation's Nazi past and materialistic present. Still, Grass downgrades his role as a social or political critic. "The idea that writers are the conscience of the nation is pure nonsense," he says. Others disagree. Professor Wilhelm Johannes Schwarz of Quebec's Laval University, who has written a literary critique of Grass, calls the novelist "the direct descendant of Walther von der Vogelweide," a poet who in the 13th century stumped the German dukedoms in support...