Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Richard M. Nixon's moving quotation of the Ohio teen-ager's sign stating "Bring us together again" is a most fitting theme for the launching of a new administration. I can think of no more appropriate way to begin this than by Nixon's utilizing the magnificent talents of Hubert H. Humphrey in some capacity after the inauguration...
...Sir: Hooray for Richard Nixon! He has survived presidential defeat in 1960, his personal nadir in the 1962 California Governor's race, the 1964 Republican fiasco, and even L.B.J., to reunite the Republican Party and become President. Political shades of Horatio Alger...
...Sir: The most disturbing aspect of the election is that 43% of the voters slaphappily approved of the Democratic leadership of the past eight years, under which: Cuba has become a Communist arsenal (Bay of Pigs); the U.S. is deep in a 500,000-man shooting war 8,000 miles from home; attorney generals have not stuck to their basic jobs; the Supreme Court has become a manufacturer instead of an interpreter of the law; crime has tripled; strikes and riots are the rule, not the exception; the city of Washington is a thug-infested jungle; and a letter costs...
...Sir: It is hard to believe that Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew will now begin a four-year term in Washington because of the timing of three men. Mayor Richard J. Daley gave up on Hubert Humphrey a little too early, President Johnson sat on his hands a little too long, and Senator Eugene McCarthy did not realize there were other people in this country until it was a little too late...
...Sir: Biblical researchers will miss the boat if they do not interrogate Senator Gene McCarthy as to his post-election feelings. I am sure they will discover just how Judas Iscariot felt after the Crucifixion...