Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading your analogy between Nixon's plight and Zeno's paradox [Oct. 3], it occurred to me that Nixon has been like the kid walking up an escalator that's going down...
...When President Nixon said, "We need to have a middle course" between "instant integration" and "segregation forever," it seemed quite obvious to me that he was advocating the attainment of integration as quickly as could reasonably be expected; not necessarily instantaneous nor delaying it forever. The analogies made by TIME to "Zeno's paradox" and "the midpoint between Now and Forever" are indeed preposterous...
...very comforted to see that Richard Nixon may keep a few weekends open in the next three months in order to watch the Washington Redskins in action [Sept. 26]. I hope the President's Cabinet keeps an eye on them also, because it may be the only leadership they will have the pleasure of witnessing during the next 3½years. The leader I am referring to, of course, is Vince Lombardi...
...Concerning the implications that President Nixon is enjoying too relaxed a presidency, I recall having read of draft revisions, troop withdrawals, ABM systems, welfare revision plans, de-inflation measures. . . Not all of this, I'm sure, took place in a golf cart or on the 50-yard line...
Also on Tuesday, the White House suddenly released, without explanation, the text of a private speech Nixon made Sunday night. In the speech, the President said the war would be over within three years...