Ex Presidents and Their Libraries Across the Nation
Nixon tops Ford in spotlight as Duke weighs a Nixon library while Ford inaugurals fade. Duke trustees vote to begin talks on a Nixon library, with other presidential repositories like Johnson, Kennedy, Hoover, and Lincoln noted for visitor numbers and archival histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Nixon
Ford Museum
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Grand Rapids
Reagan
Bob Hope
Duke University
Durham
N.C
Duke
Terry Sanford
Lyndon B. Johnson
Austin
Alamo
Texas
John F. Kennedy
Boston Harbor
Regret Over Sadat’s Expanded Crackdown In Egypt
The article argues Sadat’s arrest of about 1500 dissidents signals an autocratic turn amid reform. It notes clashes between Islamic extremists and Coptic Christians, warns of sectarian risk like Lebanon, and questions peace gains with Israel and ties to the United States while condemning broad repression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Mr. Sadat
Lebanon
Iran
Israel
United States
Washington
Socialist Labor Party
Moslem Brotherhood
Cairo
Sadat
Middle East
Army's About Face Under Meyer Improves Readiness
A year after Gen. Edward C. Meyer warned Congress of a hollow army the service now reports 98 percent of recruiting targets met with 96 300 enlistees. Nine of 10 divisions are combat ready and 69 percent of recruits are high school graduates as top sergeants in Europe whip units into shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Army
Edward C. Meyer
Congress
United States
Meyer
Europe
U.S
Slot Machine Plot and Okra Soup Tale From Charleston
The column riffs on a Charleston jurist receiving a slot machine from a Berkeley County sheriff as a novelty and ponders a wild FBI plot. It shifts to a Kingstree Okra soup recipe with comic tone, describing a digester based cooking sequence ending with a joke about heading for the hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klyde Robinson
Charleston
Berkeley County
Sullivan’s Island
South Carolina
FBI
G-men
Berkeley
Greenbrier internment and lasting kindness in wartime
In December 1941 the Greenbrier hosted internees from Germany Japan and Italy plus their families as the war began. By war’s end 1697 people stayed in West Virginia’s resort with limited restraints and ongoing leisure. The hotel staff remained gracious and left gratuities totaling $65,000 for porters bells and maids, a final gesture restoring dignity amid conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull
Greenbrier
West Virginia
Border Patrol
Also Mentioned on This Page
Richard L. Worsnop
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Iowa
Hoover Library
K’ang Hsi
Hoover
China
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln
Library of Congress
Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N.Y
Army
Ashley Cooper
G-Man
Sullivan’s Isand Beach
Dorothy McCullough
Route 3
Kingstree
Elmer
Agnes
Harveys
Hara
Sakamoto
Elle
Doonesbury
James Matt
Hes
Asbing, Dick
Aiken
Samuel A. Cothran
Scott
Hunter
A.B. Cubbedge
Sues. Brown
Rodger Rags
Sharye A. Whisenant
Aiken Communications, Inc
Rutland Drive
S. C
Aiken, S.C
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