Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Milhous Nixon loves Spiro Theodore Agnew, warts and all. But why? With all his vituperative attacks on the Viet Nam Moratorium. Agnew has violated the President's Inauguration Day dictum to speak softly. He has incurred a bad press and shortened some congressional tempers. Certainly. But those who have been most offended are in the main liberals, who are down on the Administration anyway. As Republican National Committee Chairman Rogers Morton said: "I think he's helping us more than hurting...
Sargeant also refused to speak to the demonstrators shortly after noon yesterday. "We're here to interview people who want to be employed," he said later, "not those who don't want to be employed...
...minority opinion, those students who circulated and signed the anti-Vietnam petition represent the only real hope for the entire American capitalist system. For if they can take a stand on Vietnam, perhaps one day when they are in positions of corporate power and influence they will also speak up unequivocally and act decisively on other controversial issues which are having a profound effect upon American society...
...According to Herbert Itkin, an FBI informant, Voloshen worked both for and against the Haitian government of François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In 1963, Voloshen offered to persuade Congressmen to speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...
...working-class students differ most sharply from the revolutionaries in their attitudes toward their parents and the education they are getting. Far from feeling alienated, they speak of their fathers and mothers with deep affection. Eric Priestley is constantly pained by the thought that his 65-year-old mother, who has a bad heart, still does housework for other people and that his father, 63, who has hardening of the arteries as well as a bad heart, must still mow lawns to keep a rented roof over their heads. Patricia Cabbell, 25, who clerks at Federal City College...