Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...night, when Nixon is working in the Lincoln sitting room and wants something, it is Haldeman who jumps. Says Haldeman: "He reads a memo item that some project is under way, and he'll call me and say, 'Stop that, I don't want it done that way.' " One leading Republican, asked what would happen if he wanted a man to see the President over Haldeman's objections, snapped the answer: "He wouldn't see the President." There is a route of appeal ?but it leads back to Haldeman. One long acquaintance says: "It would be difficult...
...relinquishing of the "I-labs-long an object of student protest-does not affect M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratories, which will continue to perform broader development research that is "not so close to the hardware." Albert G. Hill, M.I.T. research vice president. said yesterday...
Before dawn the next morning, Nixon impulsively wakened his valet and set off with a clutch of Secret Service men for the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked for an hour with a group of drowsy but astonished demonstrators. His discussion rambled over the sights of the world that he had seen ?Mexico City, the Moscow ballet, the cities of India. When the conversation turned to the war, Nixon told the students: "I know you think we are a bunch of so and so's." He said to them, the President recalled later, that "in 1939 I thought Neville Chamberlain...
...time the official rally ended at 3 p.m., at least a thousand had climbed into a reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, where they sang, splashed, and chanted slogans. Many young men and women took off all their clothes; two were later arrested for indecent exposure...
Early Saturday morning, after his press conference, Nixon paid a surprise visit to a startled group of students at the Lincoln Memorial. He discussed football with a student from Syracuse, and surfing with a girl from California. He said he had been unable to sleep...