Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Traffic Commission yesterday refused to grant two local peace groups a permit to hold a rally tomorrow night in front of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. where Vice-President Spiro Agnew will address the Republican Party's $25-a-plate Lincoln Day Dinner...
...White House was once a building as accessible as the Congress is now. Originally, it would be thrown open on a regular basis for the public to greet the President. But gradually, reinforced by the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, it has become closed to the average citizen. Though none of the assassinations occurred at the White House, once the President was established as a target, it was natural to increasingly fortify the place where he spent most of his time. Today, the ordinary citizen's personal access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is limited to a glimpse...
This year the Visiting Committee includes such national figures as Lincoln Gordon, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966; Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and the current President of the World Bank; Charles W. Yost, former Ambassador to Laos and the United Nations; and Harry S. Rowen, president of the Rand Corporation...
Life with the President has its rough moments too. When Nixon took his famous early-morning excursion to the Lincoln Memorial to talk to demonstrators at the time of the Cambodian invasion, Manolo was rousted out of bed to accompany him. When a fire Manolo started in the living-room fireplace at San Clemente accidentally burned out of control, damaging a wall and sending the President fleeing in his pajamas to an adjoining cottage, angry White House aides approached him for an explanation. Manolo had a humorous answer: "I promise not to smoke pot in the basement any more...
...sold 1,600,000 copies and, along with his hit single Fire and Rain, has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. A third album, Mud Slide Slim, will be released next month. Last month, Taylor was included in the predominantly classical Great Performers series at New York City's Lincoln Center. He has just finished a movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, for late spring release, and last week he began a sell-out national concert tour of 27 cities...