Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Ford failed to realize is that his call for "unity of purpose" as a means of furthering the Revolutionary tradition will not find sympathetic ears among those who produce James Otis lunch boxes or manufacture Patrick Henry book bags. Patriotism has never been founded on the "individualism," private enterprise, and "frontier spirit" that Ford invoked in his speech. He failed to understand that it was not to the politicians, business leaders, and social patriarchs inside Old North Church that he should have appealed for fulfillment of his vision of the American dream. The real American patriots, though they wouldn...
Somehow the attempt to wrap the leaders of the Revolutionary War in radical garb seemed a bit forced. Post-World War II history has conditioned Americans to think of men like John Adams and Patrick Henry as politically stodgy as they appear in pictures in American history books, with their long powdered wigs and tight-fitting puritanical breeches. Our image of Thomas Jefferson, with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of Government, who was reportedly selected by President Ford to replace John A. Scali as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, may not be able to retain his post here as well as hold the ambassadorship, members of the Faculty said yesterday...
...celebrate with fireworks while rockets are crushing freedom in other parts of the world? What a time for us to deserve a Congress like this. We need a Patrick Henry to stir our blood, a George Washington to stiffen our backbone...
...allocated among his heirs. His vast holdings included a bank, more than 50 tankers, Olympic Airways, which the Greek government has agreed in principle to buy, and a half-share of Manhattan's not-yet-completed Olympic Tower, whose 51 stories of offices and superluxurious apartments dwarf St. Patrick's Cathedral next door...