Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chris S. Richardson '75, a member of the Brigade, spoke to the audience of what he termed the need to rebuild the student movement of the '60s in a political context centered around the struggles of the oppressed people of the world...
...embargo and recent oil price and production decisions." Any implicit threat in that statement was softened by Ford's announcement that, despite inflated prices, the U.S. would increase food aid to developing nations. He did not, however, specify the amount of such aid. Almost as he spoke, Treasury Secretary William E. Simon was warning Congress that because of the impact of high oil prices, "we may be forced to reassess certain aspects of our policy as well as develop new policies that will increase our leverage...
...used in junior high school classes. Others found an E.E. Cummings poem with lines like the one referring to pubic hair as "shocking fuzz of your electric fur" too erotic. At an open meeting in June, jeers, shouts of "Communist!" and threats drowned out the few who spoke in favor of the books...
...inflation, John Kenneth Galbraith looked over the 28 other economists who had gathered in the White House and quipped that the remedies for inflation would be about the same for "Bolsheviks and the devoted supporters of Ayn Rand, if there are any present." Then Alan Greenspan smiled and spoke up: "There's at least...
There was a sacramental air about it, a sense of ritual drama. Gerald Ford had just returned to the White House from Sunday morning services, fresh from partaking of the cup of Holy Communion at the historic St. John's Episcopal Church. He spoke with the same earnest, forthright piety that had moved many listeners in his Inaugural Address a month before. This time the phrases somehow seemed more sonorous: "To do what is right as God gives me to see the right ... to uphold our laws with the help of God." He had searched his conscience, the President said...