Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...White House at the moment, there is something like an essay contest in progress among a few aides and speechwriters attempting to give verbal shape to the President's philosophy. If nothing else, the episode illustrates a difference between Nixon and his predecessor; it short-circuits the imagination to conceive of Lyndon Johnson approving of such a staff forum on what he was thinking, or ought to think...
...frenzy of achieving their organizational goal, SMC lost track of the progress of the higher goal: ending the war. They showed Nixon, as they said they would, what the American people thought of the war in a way that a picture of a bogus pile of fan mail on the presidential desk could not refute. No one at last week's conference, certainly not YSA, denies that Nixon was shown what the American people think . And yet the SMC program for the spring focuses on more mass demonstrations, more participatory manifestations of what the people are thinking . Though they showed...
This wasn't simply a victory for sleight-of-hand politics, Vogel argues. The Cantonese, like all Chinese, hungered for material progress and a sense of national purpose-dreams that had fueled the revolution. As a veteran of that revolution, T'ao convinced the Cantonese he dreamed those same dreams, and on that basis they accepted...
...program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...
...Once bills start moving through the legislative machinery, their progress should be widely publicized...