Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: What this country does not need in the White House is a glib, loose-tongued quipster. Haven't we had enough of loose spending, loose living, loose criminals, loose courts, loose sacrificing of lives in Viet Nam, loose erosion of our freedoms and loose toleration of obvious subversion...
...Sir: All that Vice President Humphrey has to do to ensure his election is to make all his appearances jointly with Senator Muskie. The public reconsideration that this would evoke could cause a Democratic landslide...
...Sir: With Mr. Nixon's political demise on Nov. 5 we can, alas, welcome Spiroagnew as a permanent household expression. It will replace Achilles' heel...
...Sir: I arrived in the U.S. from Holland more than 50 years ago, and I am fed up! I am fed up with foreigners (who presumably have never lived here) having mock U.S. elections [Oct. 25], as they are doing in Holland at the present time. "Meddling in their affairs," indeed! Who has to snatch the chestnuts out of the fire for them? Who has to liberate them, feed them, clothe them, doctor them up, and put them back on their feet? Who lends them money, and more money (I don't see any of them refusing...
...Sir: Your review of Richard Hofstadter's book [Oct. 25] gives a misleading impression of one of The Progressive Historians. I knew well and remember as a very great teacher Vernon Louis Parrington. From the review, one would judge that he never left the Middle West. In point of fact, he was an undergraduate at Harvard, and the last 20 or more years of his mere 58 were spent as a professor at the University of Washington...