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As depicted in The Lonely Crowd 19 years ago, Americans were all too well adjusted to the gray-flannel goals of "success." That is no longer so. David Riesman, who wrote the book with two colleagues and added its title to the American idiom, now finds that after two decades...
All week long Richard Nixon basked joyfully in the returns from the most important speech of his presidency, the televised address to his fellow citizens on the problems of war and peace in Viet Nam. There was a flood of congratulatory telegrams that he cheerfully displayed for photographers, a quickie...
In his speech, Nixon abandoned the politics of conciliation, raising his voice to deliver a powerful, simplistic appeal, a personal plea to "the great silent majority" to back his Viet Nam policies and give him more time to carry out his chosen course. Three Presidents before him, said Nixon, had...
Nixon let drop several clues that he has such steps in mind. In the television speech, he said that things were looking better in Viet Nam than they had in June. That was when he declared that he hoped to beat a timetable proposed by ex-Defense Secretary Clark Clifford...
There is still a danger that this week's march may be stained with blood, although the New Mobe promises to have 1,500 of its own marshals to keep the proceedings orderly. There will also be plenty of Washington police, practiced in riot-handling tactics, on hand. The...