Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become increasingly apparent that President Nixon either ignores the fact or simply does not care that innocent Americans are dying by the dozens every day in Viet...
...wish there were some way to force President Nixon to spend a few days at the overseas replacement station in Oakland, where he would have to watch dead Americans from Viet Nam in plastic bags being unloaded from plane after plane, day after day, week after week after week. Maybe he would then get the true picture and realize that he could stop the suffering with the stroke of a pen. Perhaps then this realization would prompt him to do what he should have done long ago: to bring all the troops home now, STEPHEN M. SNOW Salt Lake City...
...Sorel's first cover for TIME on the leading candidate for mayor of New York City gives him one more opportunity to indulge a favorite pastime: "Making faces at some sacred cows." Earlier targets of his pointed pen have included Billy Graham, Cardinal Spellman, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Nixon and Frank Sinatra. Sorel's depiction of New York mayors past, present and possibly future is derived from Eugène Delacroix's painting of Liberty Leading the People. On the left, gazing up at Procaccino, is Mayor John Lindsay. Former Mayor Robert Wagner lies defeated...
...Richard Nixon's way is the via media. On almost every issue he has confronted since he took office, the President has steered a middle course - or zigzagged from right to left in an effort to maintain a national equilibrium. Thus in his welfare package, Nixon made a gesture to the left by advocating a minimum annual income and to the right by keeping that subsidy at $1,600 for a family of four, far below the poverty line, and insisting that recipients accept "suitable" employment or vocational training. He suggested tax reforms, but would prefer to maintain...
...lance photog in Boston one summer and had even made money off of it. We compared notes on edging out the other photographers at the secne of the news and beating them out in getting your pictures down to AP first. We went to the big demonstration downtown when Nixon was there and ran into a lot of Secret Service men. and photographers who all came smiling up to her and joked and stood around for hours. She later explained why they were all creeps and how you could always find them at these scenes...