Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trotted meekly along behind his master." Though some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous week, encouraged the belief that he was losing his composure at last. When, on a network television program, he accused the New York Times of "gutter politics" for an editorial questioning Spiro Agnew's ethics, he not only seemed to protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than it would otherwise have had (the editorial appeared originally on a Saturday, when circulation is low, and editorial page...
...going to be some Texans in my administration and the reason that Texas is going to have a great influence in my administration is because there are a lot of brains in this state. And I am not just saying this because I am on a Texas radio program...
Sullivan's integration program initially ran into savage opposition. Critics challenged the school board in a 1964 recall election. The proposal to throw out the board-and presumably Sullivan, who was chosen by it-won 15,000 votes, but 23,000 people backed the board. Since then, Sullivan has faced threats against his life, still gets hate mail accusing him of being a Communist. Things might have been worse, he suggests, if Berkeley residents had not had "other things to occupy their interest," namely, the frequent turmoil at the Berkeley campus of the University of California...
...integration program this fall has led to a few interracial scuffles; Sullivan blames them on the tendency of Negro children to play more roughly, causing misunderstandings. Otherwise, says Sullivan, the bussing plan has been "unbelievably successful...
People still don't like Nixon and may be a little afraid of him after his ill-advised adventure with the missile-gap issue. Monday's program could not have changed many minds on either score...