Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DICK CAVETT SHOW (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The sesquipedalian savant of the talk shows takes on Jimi Hendrix and The Jefferson Airplane...
...long since become a cliche to talk of the caution and deliberation of Richard Nixon's presidency, which sometimes makes the White House seem like Miltown Mansion. But last week, for a change, the people's business was humming at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and on Capitol Hill at a tempo brisker than any heard since Lyndon Johnson's happiest days?and the tune was pretty much the President's. Nixon returned to the capital early in the week from his round-the-world tour with stops in Asia and Rumania; six days later, he flew to California for a month...
...concluded that Nixon was applying last-minute pressure to win a wavering vote. Not a bit of it. ABM was never mentioned in the phone conversation, though Williams eventually voted with the Administration. Williams is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, and the President merely wanted to talk over with him the tax-reform proposals that the House of Representatives was about to take...
...more than a decade, tax reform has been the subject of more talk than action on Capitol Hill. Last week this tradition was reversed when the House took a long-overdue step toward granting the country's front-line taxpayers some R & R from the financial wars. By a lopsided vote of 394 to 30, the House approved a bill that would ultimately give citizens $9.2 billion worth of relief, by lowering certain tax payments, and the Treasury $6.9 billion worth of reform, by plugging various loopholes...
...first encounter with the press in Laos with a grimace: "I expected everyone to want to know how I felt or whether I was looking forward to going home, but all they wanted to know was how I had been mistreated." Clearly, he and the others were bursting to talk of their ordeal and their impressions-but they would...