Word: vfw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fervent Desire. From Des Moines, Ford flew on to Minneapolis, put on an American Legion cap and defended his foreign policy before the legionnaires' annual convention. Some 12 hours after attacks on his policy by Ronald Reagan and George Wallace at the VFW convention in Los Angeles, Ford emphasized that "Détente means a fervent desire for peace, but not peace at any price. It means the preservation of fundamental American principles, not their sacrifice. It means moderate and restrained behavior between two superpowers, not a license to fish in troubled waters...
Agnew opened up a law office in Towson, Md., and quickly became an active member of the community, joining Kiwanis, the local VFW post and becoming president of the local...
Accordingly, he bounced before a polite VFW crowd in New Orleans not long ago and celebrated his resurrection as a public man by taking credit for illegal bombing raids in Cambodia. The audience was predictably appreciative. Enjoying this taste of the respect Americans of status accord a president--no matter how shadowed he may be--Nixon held one press conference, and then another, to announce that he was no longer "wallowing in Watergate" but moving on to unspecified Business of the People. Within days he vetoed a health services bill--remaining undefeated in veto battles with Congress...
...Presidents to travel is self-evident, but it can be asked whether motion is replacing substance. Nixon's recent cross-country swing was an engineered spectacle that started with his speech in the Oval Office, sped south to Florida, then on to New Orleans and the specially selected VFW audience, and came to rest by the Pacific. It was supposed to be a triumphal march from coast to coast, an antidote to Watergate. It failed because of Nixon's nervousness and because it was a hollow concept...
...This is only the beginning," Lawrence S. DiCara '71 said last night at McKeon VFW Post in Dorchester as he looked around at the people who had come to hear him announce his candidacy for the Boston City Council...