Call for High Level Study on Vice Presidency Selection
The piece argues the vice presidency is ill defined and ill trained, urging a constitutional amendment to reform the selection method. It notes past pickings often harmed ticket balance, cites Reagan Schweiker as a misstep, and calls for a serious top level study to address the office’s flaws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sen
Fritz Mondale
Robert Dole
Ronald Reagan
Richard S. Schweiker
Reagan
Ford
Mr. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Senate
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Samuel A Cothran and Robert D Cathcart Editors
The listing identifies Samuel A Cothran as President and Editor and Robert D Cathcart as Executive Editor with the date Tuesday August 31 1976.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel A. Cothran
Robert D. Cathcart
Successful Season At Hopelands In Hopeland Gardens
The U S Army Field Band and Soldiers Chorus performed Sunday with a jazz concert Monday as Hopeland Gardens wraps a successful season. Hundreds attended weekly concerts, enjoying performances and the garden space created by the late Mrs C Oliver Iselin and left to the city for future generations. City Recreation Director Mike Facciolo and committee earned credit for planning, with city officials and Friends of Hopelands aiding the project. After a second season the Hopeland Gardens concerts are a stable cultural feature in Aiken, promising many more seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Army Field Band
Hopeland Gardens
Hopelands
C. Oliver Iselin
Mike Facciolo
Friends of
Aiken
Bearing Others Burdens and Guarding Your Limits
Billy Graham counsels a reader to trust Christ with all burdens and to help others within discernment. He urges prayer for wisdom, balance in listening, and directing people to Jesus while avoiding overextension that harms both giver and recipients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss RG
Paul
Jesus Christ
Peter
Reedin Reading and Rithmatic What No Diploma If You Cant Read
Paul Harvey argues that despite more funding new buildings and better teachers, reading and math skills lag. He cites Hudson Institute findings and criticizes teaching practices and TV classroom shows. The piece supports stricter standards and performance based pay and notes an LA program to require reading proficiency for the class of 1979.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Board
Hudson Institute
Kotter
Frank Armbruster
Hudson
Armbruster
Los Angeles Board of Education
TV Guide
The Party That Loves Its Losers
Holmes Alexander argues the Republican love for defeated candidates reveals a lingering, uneven psyche of the GOP. He contrasts Landon Goldwater and later figures Reagan Ford with wartime and foreign policy debates, noting persistent losses and a party nearing its end amid admiration for beaten candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alf Landon
Barry Goldwater
Kansas
Mothers of America
Landon
Republican Party
Senator Goldwater
Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
New York City
Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Kissinger
Ford
Solzhenitsyn
White House
Reagan
Unjust To FBI and Political Deals in Washington
A column asserts the Justice Department may prosecute FBI agents for break-ins and wiretaps carried out under orders from higher officials. It also alleges a multi million dollar favor in oil policy involving Powerine Oil and SBA overrule aiding large refiners for cheap government oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
FBI
Justice Department
Socialist Workers Party
Weathermen
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Tom Klepper
Interior Department
Kleppe
Small Business Administration
Powerine Oil
California
Ford
Robert Collier
Collier
Powerine
Evacuation of American Army Across East River 1776
Washington conducts a six hour night evacuation of 10 000 American troops from Long Island to Manhattan across a mile wide East River with small boats and dense fog. British commander Captain George Collier notes the rebels have slipped away and will likely cause trouble for the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island
Americag
Merlcag
Brooklyn Heights
Keetan Howe
Washington
George Collier
Rainbow
Fortified Ninety Six during Cornwallis campaign in 1780
The siege works at Ninety Six South Carolina detail a semicircular network of outposts, stockades, and earthworks surrounding the village. Lt John Harris Cruger commanded about 550 Tory troops from New York, New Jersey and South Carolina as Cornwallis planned a Virginia campaign to end the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Macdowell
Charles Town
Augusta
Ninety-Six
South Carolina
John Harris Cruger
New York
New Jersey
Lord Cornwallis
Virginia
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AEAN
Carter
Russell
Grand Rapids
Billy Graham
DR. Graham
R.G
Reeding, Righting and
Rithmatick
Paul Harvey
By Holmes Alexander
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
Thomas Dewey
al Smith
Welkin
War Party
Peace Party
Henry Cabot Lodge
R-Mass
Woodrow Wilson
America
League of Nations
Europe
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Foreign Relations Committee
Foster Dulles
GOP
North Korea
Seventh Fleet
Taiwan
China
Truman
Korea
Kennedy
Vietnam
Aoe
Beery Kissinger
Indochina
Kemper Arena
Merry
By Jack Anderson
Chronicle of
Cruger
Holmes
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