Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Range of Risks. For three days after the U.S. aircraft was officially declared missing, the President went ahead with business as usual at the White House. The matter did not even come up at a Cabinet meeting the morning of the announcement; it scarcely could have, because the Cabinet wives had been invited to sit in for the first time...
Richard Nixon completes his first hundred days in office next week. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington Bureau chief and former White House correspondent, gives his assessment of the President's performance thus...
...White House, they quickly slide over the hundred days odium. Aides refer instead to the year's "first quarter," as if the Administration were a corporation. The first quarter of this new business was logically concerned with organization and getting acquainted (Nixon's visits to Government agencies, his trip to Europe, his televised news conferences). All this Nixon has accomplished with decency if not grace, with competence if not brilliance. In a world and nation grown weary of a looming Uncle Sam and a volcanic Johnson, the new pace is comforting to many...
...What about Negroes wanting to be white?" the Reporter interjects. "At this stage in history," Howard replies, "the direction for crossing the barrier must be from white to black in order to make possible free movement from black to white.... One of the reasons I'm interested in the establishment of strong black college is that I'm certain they will be irresistible to whites...
...talk moves to the problem of black students who refuse to be taught by white professors. Harding feels that "some black militants who are needed in the field of higher education just will not fit well into a mixed setting." But he concludes, "Ultimately we will have a far more healthy society if people are free to decide what they want to do about integration...