Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At the press conference last week, the President said that he would soon address the country on Viet Nam. The speech will probably come just before Christmas. Among other things, Nixon will announce another major troop withdrawal-probably about 40,000 men, bringing the total withdrawal this year to 100...
Moscow Visit. There are perhaps two reasons why Nixon is speaking more openly about his plans for Viet Nam. The enemy is quiescent as the situation in South Viet Nam continues to stabilize and improve. And the Paris peace talks are getting nowhere. As he said at his press conference...
TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter submitted a list of questions concerning settlement of the war to Nguyen Huu Tho, President of the National Liberation Front, who recently visited Moscow. Tho has operated for the past few years from a succession of hidden bunkers and jungle camps, and is the...
"Ask not what your country can do for you," said John F. Kennedy in his inaugural speech as President. "Ask what you can do for your country." The words were uttered less than ten years ago, yet it could have been a century. The classically balanced cadences, the summons to...
The '60s saw an almost unprecedented rise in public violence in the U.S. Romantic revolution could not be blamed for all of it; there was the violence of blacks tormented by ghetto life, the violence of officialdom overreacting to protest. Still, although Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers were...