Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of State William Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and Attorney-General John Mitchell will serve on the NSC. The President-elect is extremely close to Rogers and Mitchell, and he respects Laird. Mitchell and Rogers will help Nixon form his own thoughts, and Laird will press if he disagrees with them...
After this exchange, Harvard had to press and gamble, making mistakes which Ohio converted into its final margin of victory, 89-74. Dover finished with 28 points, most of them on driving layups from his point position and nine in the four minute burst which almost propelled Harvard into a major upset...
...anti-Administration movement suffered in 1968 because it had few leaders who were either recognized by the press or who had much political experience. Both of these deficiencies have been met to a limited extent. Names like Allard Lowenstein, Julian Bond, John Gilligan, and Don Peterson are now both well-known and respected in the Washington press corps...
...right to break the conscription law, does this not give the Klan the right to disobey the Civil Rights Act? There is a confusion here between the tolerance of all speech, and the tolerance of all actions. I would argue that all promulgation of ideas by speech or press whether odious to us or not, should be tolerated without distinction; that we, as citizens, should defend someone's right to speak stupidly (even while we expose that studidity), that whatever "harm" may come from bad ideas it is not irreparable. But as for actions, their result may be irreparable...
...Sinyavsky-Daniel trial: "Your question is like inviting someone to dinner and then putting a dead rat on his plate." In 1968, while a number of Russian intellectuals were being tried on patently fabricated charges, Evtushenko was on a three-month tour of Latin America. At a Mexico City press conference, he repeated his attacks on Sinyavsky and Daniel, now adding that other imprisoned writers were involved in terrorism and foreign exchange frauds...