Representative American speeches, 1972-1973
By: edited by Waldo W. Braden
Series: The Reference shelf -- v. 45, no. 4
Publisher: H.W. Wilson
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Speeches, addresses; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Description: Contains primary source material.
Notes: This forty-fifth annual compilation contains speeches by such men as President Nixon, Mark Hatfield, Dean Rusk, and René J. Dubos. The speeches are grouped under the headings: Inauguration: two views of the future; The seventies: perplexities and prospects; Women in politics; Malaise of the spirit; The sixties: Lyndon Baines Johnson remembered; Management of nature; and Views on education.
Table of contents: title: Second inagural address  -- Richard M. Nixon; title: American politics : a personal view  -- George S. McGovern; title: Blacks and the Nixon administration : the next four years  -- Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.; title: The Watergate case  -- Richard M. Nixon; title: Truth in government  -- Charles McG. Mathias, Jr.; title: Meet the press  -- Gloria Steinem and Jill Ruckelshaus; title: Women in politics  -- Shirley Chisholm; title: You can do it  -- Patricia Schroeder; title: Reconciliation and peace  -- Mark O. Hatfield; title: Is Thomas Jefferson relevant?  -- William Peden; title: The eroding authority  -- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.; title: "We must renew out confidence"  -- Clark M. Clifford; title: Education  -- Jorn W. Gardner; title: Eulogy of Lyndon Baines Johnson  -- Dean Rusk; title: As the days dwindle down  -- Lyndon B. Johnson; title: Humanizing the Earth  -- René J. Dubos; title: Public education for a humane society  -- Harold Howe II; title: The decade of shortcuts  -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.; title: Opportunity for educational innovation  -- Matina S. Horner; title: Finding America -- George B. Hartzog, Jr.