Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insisting that he would "never again run for any public office," Nixon spoke out as "an individual citizen." Most particularly, he criticized the Kennedy Administration's handling of Cuba, and the failure to provide sufficient air cover over the Bay of Pigs. Said he: "When the suggestion is made that President Eisenhower may or may not have planned air cover, I would only suggest this: I cannot imagine the General, who planned the greatest invasion in history, the invasion of Normandy, allowing those 1,500 brave Cubans to go into the Bay of Pigs there without having first destroyed...
...Nixon it was an immensely pleasant week. At New York's University Club, he appeared before 500 persons, the largest turnout since Winston Churchill spoke there 17 years ago. On the taped Paar show, Nixon joked easily and played an original tune on the piano. Said he to Jack: "You asked whether I had any future political plans to run for anything. If last November didn't finish this, this will, because believe me, the Republicans don't want another piano player in the White House...
John J. Conway, lecturer on History, and Harry P. Kerr, assistant professor of public speaking, spoke at the prison last week as part of the Phillips Brooks House prisons program...
...amendment was offered by Rep. Roman Pucinski (D-Ill.), and was defeated by a voice vote after Rep. Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke against the measure...
...Berg spoke lightly of a testimony before the House Merchant Marine Committee Wednesday that compulsory arbitration for maritime disputes "would be a great incentive for more effective collective bargaining." Solon B. Turman, chairman of Lykes Brothers Steamship Company Inc., giving the testimony, said that a threat of binding arbitration would induce labor and management to settle their disputes themselves...