Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month? Should there be a vast reversal in American foreign policy? Should Lyndon Johnson go on television and say "My fellow countrymen, we have been entirely wrong in Vietnam. We must withdraw our troops from Vietnam and from the other nations of the world where our presence is obstructing progress, and concentrate our attention on the problems of our own country and the vast natural difficulties that afflict the world...
More about the Administration's problems and progress to date...
...believe that America's great hope and opportunity lies in rediscovering the uniqueness of our institutions, in tapping anew the limitless power for human progress of our revolutionary principles. I believe that America's hope and opportunity, which is the world's hope and opportunity, is for a rebirth of Americanism in America, through a modern application to today's problems of our proven American principles...
Pilgrim's Progress. Legson was born in the British colony of Nyasaland, now independent and known as Malawi. The first white man he ever saw was an elegant official marching behind a column of African tribesmen, commandeered to bear the white man's burden-notably the white man's wife, who was carried through Legson's impoverished village on a litter. He assumed that the strangers were gods...
...October morning in 1958, carrying an ax, a little flour, a Bible, and a copy of Pilgrim's Progress, he set out barefoot for America. He struck due north through Tanganyika, Uganda, the Sudan. Some days he walked 50 miles, living mostly on bananas and peanuts. After four months his feet were a mass of blisters. "I am mad," he muttered. But his shirt said I WILL TRY. For consolation he read Pilgrim's Progress...