Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative school, he is moderate enough, particularly on racial issues, not to offend most liberals too greatly. Finally, as Nixon pointedly noted?his mind obviously on the financial dealings that forced Fortas to resign a fortnight ago ?Burger has shown "unquestioned integrity throughout his private and public life...
...legal pad, the President told not only why he had chosen Burger but why he had not chosen several others who had been prominently mentioned for the job. Other Presidents, including L.B.J., have held background sessions dealing with personalities or events. But never before has a President admitted the public so far into his thinking about an appointment. To some, it appeared to be a typical example of Nixonian psychology, a somewhat compulsive need to justify and explain himself. But the President's motives seemed straightforward enough. He wanted to use facts to stop press speculation that might prove embarrassing...
...large with sex and violence, with drugs and insanity which both influences the student militants and provides them with a noteworthiness which they exploit to the full. If students protest because of an idea or position and do so in orderly and rational form, they do not receive much public attention. But if they shed all their clothes and walk around naked, this makes news all over the nation, whatever the case they may, or may not have had. It is part a dangerous fascination with youth and its extreme positions...
...clarify misconceptions entertained by many members of the greater Cambridge community, I, offer the following brief observations on my relationship with King Collins. I have avoided making any public statement until this time so as to assure that my comments would not be appended to the numerous unprincipled attacks on him that have prejudiced criminal action against...
...instance, one of the house this spring took in 142 freshmen. Sixteen were from local prep schools; 11 were from Andover and Exeter; 36 were from other private schools; and 79 were from public high schools. Other Houses had about the same proportions, Watson said...