Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What this country does not need in the White House is a glib, loose-tongued quipster. Haven't we had enough of loose spending, loose living, loose criminals, loose courts, loose sacrificing of lives in Viet Nam, loose erosion of our freedoms and loose toleration of obvious subversion...
...Washington to announce that the U.S. and North Viet Nam had entered the "final stages" of bargaining for a bombing pause, predicted results in the "not too distant fu ture." In Paris, an official of an allied country with troops in the South said flatly: "Everything is settled." The White House was far more cautious. But when rumors began spreading that the talks between the U.S. and North Viet Nam were on the verge of collapse, word was passed that there had been no breakthrough, but no breakdown either...
...more billboards and countryside than voters. Nixon, who had run a precise and frequently leisurely campaign to avoid mistakes born of weariness, was looking-and sounding-a bit tired. He was making occasional small fluffs, as when he declared his intention to move into "1400 Pennsylvania Avenue." The White House address is 1600; Nixon's Washington headquarters is at 1400, in the old Willard Hotel that will soon be razed. And the candidate showed a tendency to re-create his rough "old" Nixon style...
Four years later, Republicans accused Grover Cleveland of siring an illegitimate child, and anti-Cleveland mobs cried derisively: "Ma, ma, where's my pa?", to which Cleveland's Democrats appended: "Gone to the White House. Ha! Ha! Ha!"* For all that, presidential candidates in the past were usually spared the ignominy of being heckled to their faces...
...results of Tuesday seem like an incidental off-shoot of real conflicts that the political system has not faced this year. President elect Nixon should read the vote not as a mandate so much as a warning. He will enter the White House with little personal prestige or popoular support, and without the Congressional support that he had expected. Therefore, if he is going to be able to govern, he will have to end the war quickly and not necessarily "honorably." And he will have to redirect this country's resources to its own disintergrating cities, and not necessarily with...