Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have extraordinary validity in the fact that the People's Republic of Vietnam has assigned an important place to our own Declaration of Independence and to the paradigmatic role of George Washington in its own formative rhetoric and constitutional documents. Hanoi's ever more frequent direct appeals to a portion of the American people over the heads of our highly elected officials is grounded partly, of course, in their Marxist reading and no doubt misreading of what they construe as the class basis of our protest movement but partly also in their residual admiration for part of America. This...
...anomalies of the Vietnam War that I have asked you to reflect upon this noon in chapel before we face the yet more difficult events ahead. We know that the President's policy of withdrawal through Vietnamization has consolidated behind him and his frighteningly articulate Vice-President a large portion of that silent majority which is to be found in any nation, that silent majority which bears its full share and sometimes more in the great exertions of society in war and rapid social change, that silent majority which generated instinctively those symbols and slogans which bond society together...
...many Middle Americans would disagree among themselves on some issues. The lower middle class, including blue-collar workers, service employees and farm workers, numbers some 40 million. Many of the nation's 20 million elderly citizens, frequently living on fixed incomes, are Middle American. So is a substantial portion of the 36 million white-collar workers. Although a hard figure is not possible, the total of Middle Americans probably approaches 100 million, or half of the U.S. population...