Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference with Republican leaders was little more than that. He had failed to say much about the United Nations during the campaign, so last week he took incoming Secretary of State William Rogers and Henry Kissinger, who will be the White House assistant for national security affairs, on a visit to the United Nations for a conference with Secretary-General U Thant. Early in the new Administration, Nixon intends to make a good-will trip to Western Europe for conferences with the principal NATO allies, but the decision is still tentative. The firmest plan that emerged from Nixon headquarters...
...states and local communities. A leading backer of the Viet Nam war, he made a calculated switch last year and argued that the Republicans must appear as the party of peace, that Viet Nam was something to hang around Lyndon Johnson's neck. Laird does not plan to visit Viet Nam until his appointment is confirmed by the Senate. As he puts it: "Such visits should be made when they count...
...becoming almost obligatory for foreign bigwigs to call on the President-elect as well as on the President himself: Is rael's General Moshe Dayan came to see Nixon last weekend, and this week the Amir of Kuwait, in the U.S. on the last state visit of Johnson's term of office, was to pay a courtesy call on the President-elect. Gradually but inexorably, the power of the U.S. presidency was shifting from Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon...
Before flying off to visit troops in Viet Nam, Evangelist Billy Graham paid a call at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a few words with former President Dwight Eisenhower. As Graham recalls it, Ike had a message for the G.I.s, delivered with tears streaming down his cheeks: "You're going to Viet Nam. Tell those doughboys that here at Walter Reed is an old soldier pulling for them and praying for them." Said Graham: "I was touched. I had never seen him cry before...
...ultimate discovery of a faith and a vocation. It was a book suffused with spiritual zeal, and was perhaps the last great flowering of Catholic romanticism. Its perfume was provocative. Under its spell, disillusioned veterans, students, even teen-agers flocked to monasteries across the country either to stay or visit as retreatants...