Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Yes, Americans want a change. To have Richard Nixon win by such a small percentage of votes at a time when Americans are drastically searching for new leadership shows the fantastic amount of hate this country has for that...
...Sir: If the liberal President before him could not appease a raucous Negro population with heavy legislation for human rights, how is the comparatively conservative Nixon expected to do so? If a liberal Democratic President could not manage a liberal Democratic Congress, how is the conservative Republican expected to maneuver the same Congress? If the leader of a labor-oriented political party could not pacify the rebellious labor unions, how is the leader of a big-business-oriented party expected to reason with labor? If the President who was swept into office in 1964 on the largest majority vote ever...
...Sir: I can think of nothing more disastrous for the future of America than Mr. Nixon's talk of unity. The last time we were blessed with unity was during the togetherness Administration of President Eisenhower, which turned out to be a period of absolute torpor...
...Sir: I found your Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing" [Nov. 15], most interesting. There is no doubt that in the Western world the tradition of publicly conceding defeat to a political opponent has been well established. I think Americans have reached a high point of civilization by having made this beautiful and courageous practice an important part of their way of life...
...Churchill got the government to bankroll B.P.'s tottering predecessor, the pioneering Anglo-Persian Oil Co., thus ensuring fuel for the Royal Navy through two world wars. An equally happy mix of politics and oil has been overdue for Drake, who will formally take over from ailing Chairman Sir Maurice Bridgeman in January. Last year's closing of the Suez Canal forced shipping costs up; then came the Biafran civil war, which has stopped B.P.'s Nigerian production. Such woes held 1967 profits to a disappointing $154 million (on sales of $2.9 billion) as compared with this...