Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, centered on invitations and tickets. Some 300,000 "general invitations" on soft eggshell paper and colorful 16-page guides to the festivities were dispatched from computerized lists. They were meant mainly as souvenirs and included a warning in small type that they were good only for viewing the oath-taking and parade. Somehow one went to an inmate at a Texas state penitentiary, another went to a child who, having been elected president of her grade-school class, had written Carter on how to win the presidency...
Those who oppose universal amnesty take pains to distinguish deserters from draft resisters. The latter, they argue, may have been honestly opposed to the war for reasons of conscience, since they refused to participate from the beginning. Deserters, on the other hand, took an oath to serve in the military, and then reneged on their commitments. Opponents often portray deserters as cowards who fled the battlefield...
...will place his left palm on the Bible and raise his right hand. Then, in the now familiar soft and even tones of south Georgia, Jimmy Carter, 52, will take the oath that will make him?just as he was saying all along?the 39th President...
...wrong "principles," the paper charged, was seizing power illegally. Chiang Ch'ing had aspired to nothing less than the party chairmanship. Only three days after Mao's death, one member of the gang "arranged for people to write to Chiang Ch'ing affirming their oath of fealty," while the lady herself was reportedly "so eager she couldn't sit still." Another member of the gang was so confident of the plot's success that he had a photographer shoot "standard portraits" of the gang for publication when it took office. The paper further charged that...
...stand straight and take the Oath right on the Capitol Steps...