Word: public
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inherited and a war that would soon become his own liability if he could not move effectively toward ending it. In any case, the White House now believes that a new phase of serious negotiation with Hanoi promises to begin soon in Paris. Both directly in public and elliptically in private, the North Vietnamese are not simply contenting themselves with scoring propaganda points but are starting to go further. They are pressing for details of some of Nixon's eight points...
...Richard Nixon attempted an answer last week at General Beadle State College* in Madison, S. Dak., a tranquil campus that presented little risk of embarrassing disruption, though a few student protesters did in fact stage a peaceful mini-demonstration. The President praised youth's quest for honesty in public and private life. He defended the right to peaceful dissent. But he came down hard on radicals who prefer coercion to persuasion and on faculty sympathizers who "should know better." Said Nixon: "It should be self-evident that this sort of self-righteous moral arrogance has no place...
...reasoned defense against those who profess to see something unwholesome in the American system. "The structure of our laws has rested from the beginning on a foundation of moral purpose," he told the new moralists. The President also taught a fundamental civics lesson: "The right to participate in public decisions carries with it the duty to abide by those decisions when reached, recognizing that no one can have his own way all the time." What he failed to emphasize was that the realities of economic and political power sometimes dilute these principles. He did not really confront the challenge...
...percentage of the nation's students will remain restless and questing for an indefinite period. Many will follow the advice of Barbara Ward, the English economic journalist, who exhorted University of Pennsylvania students: "Please stay angry. I implore you to determine that you are going to give them [public officials] no peace. I say, go out, bite them...
...prisoner trying to escape. They also complained of the unsanitary conditions of the stockade. The Army charged the 27 men with mutiny, and at the first of a series of courts-martial, three of them received sentences of up to 16 years (TIME, Feb. 21). There was an immediate public outcry at the harsh sentences, which were subsequently reduced to two years by the Army Judge Advocate...