Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Before supersophisticated writers start carping about Mr. Nixon's state dinner in Los Angeles honoring the astronauts, may a humble and grateful citizen say, "Thank you, Mr. President." Thank you for your boyish pride, your genuine affection for three gallant men, and most of all thank you for sharing it with me. I had a wonderful time. Where else could you see the Ambassador of Sweden, Rudy Vallee and an astronaut sit down together...
...vacation the President of the U.S. ever takes can be quite like that of any other citizen. During his month in San Clemente, Calif., Richard Nixon has managed to claim most of his afternoons for rest and relaxation. The mornings at White House West, however, are working hours; the business of the world's most powerful nation can never come to complete rest. Each day, the President is briefed on foreign happenings by White House Aide Henry Kissinger and on domestic issues by Attorney General John Mitchell. A steady flow of information and decision-demanding paper work comes...
...that prosecution is easy under the best of circumstances. The gangsters' well-paid legal corps takes full advantage of the Bill of Rights. The Mob's muscle often takes care of potential witnesses. It takes a brave citizen to call the police. Also, most of the evidence gathered by the FBI, until recently, was not admissible in court...
...well feel personally responsible for the survival of much of the human race in the nuclear age. More than ever, he needs the kind of private release that the open frontier once provided. A successful politician often possesses immense energy that needs to be released. The obscure private citizen can lose control of himself in public. Nobody but his friends will care. The man in public life must exercise iron control...
...consider what would happen to a private citizen who, heading "out to the dunes" after a party with a girl in his car, drove off the road and killed the girl-then crept quietly away from the scene without saying anything to anyone, leaving car and corpse to be discovered the next day without his assistance. The laws covering a situation like this are stringent-nay, merciless. Such a private citizen would pay a very stiff price indeed for his irresponsible behavior. Yet it seems that Edward Kennedy intends to pay no price...