Word: spokes
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...Works of Peace. Johnson spoke at length about economic aid in South Viet Nam-the third of the "three Ds" in his policy of determination, discussions and development. The U.S., he said, has pumped $2 billion into the country since 1954. "With our help," he declared, "South Viet Nam has already doubled its rice production. We have already helped vaccinate over 7,000,000 people against cholera and millions more against other diseases. More than a quarter-million young Vietnamese can now learn in more than 4,000 classrooms that America has helped to build; and 2,000 more schools...
...have a calming effect on the Dominicans. But at week's end loyalist and rebel attitudes had hardened to the point where that seemed forlorn. Once more President Johnson appealed for peace and promised that the U.S. "will render all available assistance toward rapid economic development." As he spoke, 1,500 of Imbert's loyalist troops opened a major attack with tanks and heavy artillery aimed at wiping out about 300 rebels in the northern part of the city. The danger now was of another full-scale bloodbath-no matter how many U.S. and Latin American troops occupied...
...fact, the vast majority of the nation's press supported Johnson's intervention. Said the Chattanooga Times: "President Johnson took a bold step, one fraught with difficulties and even dangers, but he had the same solid reason of which Mr. Kennedy spoke -the security of our nation." Agreed the Chicago Daily News: "The Dominican rebellion forced President Johnson to decide whether the Western Hemisphere was threatened by another Cuba. He decided it was. Let those who did not have his information or responsibility decide that he was wrong; that is the luxury of the spectator...
...side, Lyndon taught Houston's first Dale Carnegie course for businessmen. To teach poise, he would stand in a corner and heckle his Carnegie students as they spoke. His teaching career ended in 1932, when he Turned to politics. He enrolled in Georgetown Law School in 1934 but did not complete the semester...
Dame Edith in her last best years struck the attitude of a withered grand Cassandra. Her memoirs involuntarily reveal that in this, as in all her cold, impressive poses, it was seldom a grown woman who spoke. It was more often poor little E, getting even with the world for making her poor little...