Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field against his critics in his Nov. 3 plea to "the silent majority" for backing of his Viet Nam policy, and last week he ordered Vice President Spiro.Agnew into the fray to mount an extraordinary-and sometimes alarming-assault on network television's handling of the news (see following story...
...throughout the nation." Nixon's speech, delivered as the peace demonstrators assembled for the first of their marches in Washington, was in many ways more persuasive and candid than his TV address to the nation. As he left Washington to watch the Apollo 12 launch at Cape Kennedy (see THE MOON, p. 28), the President was visibly and understandably pleased with himself...
Agnew began by attacking television's postmortem analyses of Richard Nixon's Nov. 3 Viet Nam speech. "President Nixon delivered the most important address of his administration," said Agnew. "His hope was to rally the American people to see the conflict through to a lasting and just peace in the Pacific." But no sooner had Nixon finished his painstakingly prepared address, the Vice President complained, than "his words and policies were subjected to instant analysis and querulous criticism...
...stark hopelessness could not be ignored as you walked past the White House with your tiny candle and yelled out a dead man's name. You couldn't see the mansion because those with the hands on the buttons had switched on lights which blinded your vision as you passed. You couldn't even see the line of candles going up Pennsylvania Avenue. They were too weak...
...fire did burn us. Like so many others, we wanted merely to watch , to absorb the eerie scene of militants breaking windows and dodging police under flourescent lights. As it turned out, all we did was get gassed. Gassed three times. We returned again and again to see what we could see. We never saw anything...