Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been authorized by Congress and endorsed in principle by Nixon. But during the campaign, the incoming President criticized Washington for its "heavyhanded" regulation of the securities field. Cohen fears that if he does not move quickly to get the investigation well under way, his Nixon-appointed successor will not press the study too vigorously...
...government, and they will try to demoralize you." Who were "they"? Almost anyone in Brazil's elite who wore mufti, if Costa e Silva was to be believed: "You have heard voices raise themselves from the pulpit, from the courts, from Congress, from the universities and from the press." Some were even members of the National Renewal Alliance, the government party established after the first military takeover in March 1964 against Leftist Joao Goulart. The government last week indicated that it may disband the party. One embarrassing reason: 70 of its members were among the Congressmen who refused...
...refused to make the ritual pledge that the U.S. will maintain the official price of gold at $35 per ounce. "I want to keep every option open," he said. Next day, the free market price of gold jumped in London to a six-month high of $41.82, and Nixon Press Aide Ron Ziegler tried to quiet the uncertainty by declaring: "We do not anticipate any change in the price of gold...
...Steel chairmanship, but Blough never seemed fully comfortable in the statesman's role. American steelmakers have been beset by many problems, notably the rising level of steel imports, which this year will capture about 16% of the U.S. market. Privately, steelmen have often faulted Blough for issuing terse press releases instead of fully articulating the industry's position on trade and other matters of public policy. Blough's effectiveness in Government relations was further impaired by his 1962 steel-price showdown with President Kennedy-after which J.F.K. complained: "My father always told me that all businessmen were...
...course, was prepared to kill his own son for God.) On student revolt, he comments: "And so you ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads BRUNETTE STABBED TO DEATH. Underneath in lower-case letters: '6,000 Killed in Iranian Earthquake.' I wonder what color hair they...