Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for TIME'S excellent cover story on President Marcos and the Philippines [Oct. 21]. It was a well-developed tribute to Marcos as a person, most timely, and free of the errors in fact and substance that so often mar American writing about the Philippines. H. FORD WILKINS Executive Director Philippine-American Chamber...
...start his 17-day, seven-nation swing through Asia. He went to Australia and New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand, Malaysia and Korea as a Western leader in quest of a solution to the war in Viet Nam. In Viet Nam itself, he went as Commander in Chief to thank his troops for serving "in the front line of a contest as far-reaching and as vital as any we have ever waged." But he also went to Asia as an American politician whose party is embroiled in a major campaign, knowing well that the voters' decisions next week...
...Thank You." Johnson, squinting at the rows of lean, weatherbeaten men who crowded around the makeshift stand, told them: "I came here today for one good reason: simply because I could not come to this part of the world and not come to see you." Added the President: "I give you my pledge: We shall never let you down, or your fighting comrades, or the 15 million people of South Viet Nam, or the hundreds of millions of Asians who are counting on us to show here-here in Viet Nam-that aggression doesn't pay, and that aggression...
Plunging into the olive-drab crowd, the President heard an Army corporal say "Thank you for coming." "Thank you," he replied, "for being here." He reached for outthrust hands. "How about one for Texas?" shouted one soldier. The President gave him a hearty handshake and a big grin. In the air-conditioned Quonsets of the base hospital, the President gave out two dozen Purple Hearts, signed "L.B.J." on casts and fatigue caps, shook hands with nurses in baggy fatigues...
...most palpably political Thanksgiving messages since 1866, when Lyndon's presidential namesake, Andrew, urged fellow Americans to thank the Almighty for the extension of "our railroad system far into the interior recesses of the country," the President last week issued a 468-word statement that proclaimed...