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...chanted prayers for him, and 100,000 well-drilled Cambodians dressed in reds, whites, blues and greens had staged a kind of half-time football series of tableaux forming the words Vive la France with French and Cambodian flags and Vive De Gaulle with placards, the general took the rostrum. Bordering as it does on Viet Nam, Cambodia was a good place to amplify a message meant...
...last week's speech, Lin praised Communism's power "for remolding the very souls of the people," and exhorted Red China "to strike down all bourgeois royalists, oppose all actions to suppress the revolution, and strike down all monsters and demons." Following Lin to the rostrum, Premier Chou Enlai, who retained his No. 3 position in the hierarchy, declared: "We must respond to the call of Comrade Lin Piao to apply Chairman Mao's works in a living...
...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...
Then, alternately waving his fists in the air and pounding the rostrum, Johnson cried: "We have always hated the horrors of war! We will have our differences and our disputes, and we will do it without questioning the honor and integrity of our fellow man. If we were to turn our backs on freedom in South Viet Nam-if Viet Nam were to fall to force-what an empty thing our commitment to liberty would turn out to be! We will stand there with honor, and we shall stand there with courage, and we shall stand there with patience...
...joint resolution of Congress passed unanimously in the House and 88 to 2 in the Senate after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Rusk noted that Gore had a copy of the resolution and asked to borrow it. "Oh, sure," said Gore, pitching a 233-page pamphlet from a high rostrum to the well where Rusk sat, thirty feet away. Gore's aim was off, but when an aide retrieved the pamphlet and handed it to Rusk, the Secretary found the words he was looking for. The resolution empowers the President, he noted, "to prevent further aggression...