Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FAILING to enter the situation at the outset as he characteristically has attempted to do in times of crisis, it appears Kissinger lost whatever initiative and leverage his reputation could have brought to the cause. All along Kissinger showed no sign of alarm or awareness to the potential dangers the situation posed in Cyprus--highly uncharacteristic of the meticulous and generally extremely foresighted professor. While Kissinger appeared willing to aid the Greek junta, he didn't even make a move to ease the Turkish invasion of Cyprus once the new Greek government was installed. For some reason, the repressive Greek...
...pocket veto of a bill in 1970 was unlawful. The measure, a $225 million authorization for the training of family physicians, was passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress. Nixon, who objected to the bill on the ground that it would cost too much money, failed to sign it. By the deadline tenth day, Congress had recessed for a five-day Christmas holiday. Nixon then claimed that the bill...
...champagne for the event. Mostly, the nation was massively grateful to have it ended. As Ford said at his swearing-in, "Our long national nightmare is over." By his leaving, Nixon seemed at last to redeem the 1968 pledge he took from a girl holding up a campaign sign in Ohio: BRING US TOGETHER. The resignation brought at least the unity of hope for a fresh beginning, and with Ford, the hope for a new style of presidential leadership. After the long, obsessional preoccupation with Watergate and its claustrophobic underground works, most Americans felt last week as if they were...
...York Times Columnist James Reston commented: "Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that the nation has come out of this nightmare reasonably united. By his tragic blunders and lonely conspiracies, Mr. Nixon has finally kept his promise to the little girl with the sign in Ohio. He has 'brought us together,' not for his leadership and his tactics but against them . . . The essence of the tragedy is that he was not faithful to his better instincts, or even to his friends...
...have 50 cents, $2, $4, $5, $6...$10.50 once, twice, sold!" The crowd snatches up other rarities: a Beatlemobile, made of paper and string, for $10; a Revere plastic model of Ringo, just like your favorite songbird or racing car, for $11. Joe picks up a hand-painted sign reading, "Koo Koo Koo Joop." "Whoever can tell me what book Lennon got this word from gets a free album." Purists should know tangential questions like this. Why, just the other day, when Joe was doing a radio show, someone called to confirm Lennon's license plate number...