Nixon supporters urge unified effort to end Vietnam war
The piece defends President Nixon and urges Congress and the public to back a united effort to withdraw American troops from Vietnam. It criticizes lawmakers such as Hartke Bayh Fulbright Javits McGovern Kennedy for opposing the president’s methods and warns that criticizing from abroad harms national interests.
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Hanoi Hartke
Tonkin Gulf
Dien Bien Phu
Nixon
Vietnam
North Vietnam
America
United States Senate
U.S. House of Representatives
Hartkes
Bayhs
Fulbrights
Javits
McGoverns
Kennedys
Nixon orders mining of North Vietnamese ports and bombing links
The article argues the Vietnam War required bold action from Nixon to defeat North Vietnam, blaming liberal figures such as McNamara and Kennedy for restraint. It cites a reader letter from Saigon and frames American defeat as a fear driven by New Left critics and pacifist sentiment.
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Vietnam
Nixon
U.S
Diem Bien Phu
North Vietnam
Red China
United States
South Vietnam
Johnson
Robert McNamara
Hanoi
Washington
New Left
Saigon
Quant Tri
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Malaysia
Asia
Arthur Krock
Letter From Europe Critiques U.S. Media Censorship
Alice Widener argues in Brussels that American TV and newspapers distort European reaction to Nixon's Vietnam policies. She accuses New York media moguls of one sided reporting and censorship, elevating leftist views while silencing center and right perspectives.
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Europe
Brussels
Belgium
CBS
NBC
ABC
New York Times
Washington Post
New York City
Nixon
U.S
Neue Zurcher Zeitung
la Libre Belgique
Il Tempo
Vietnam
United States
International Herald Tribune
Paris
Louis Pauwels
Pauwels
Gustave Thibom
Thibom
New York
Roland Germinal
el Economista
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Winston Churchill
Irenerd
Alice Wicener
U.S.A
Paul Harvey on Work Ethic and Economic Policy
Paul Harvey argues Nixon misreads youth work attitudes while noting rising employment and a revival of Horatio Alger ambition. He cites increased moonlighting and vocational shifts, with colleges revising curricula to favor hands on jobs and a trend toward valuing labor again.
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Nixon
Congress
Joint Economic Committee
Sion
Horatio Alger
Harvard
Dartmouth
Humphrey Finds Center Ground After Years On The Edge
Senator Hubert Humphrey moves from fringe on the left to the political center as the Democratic party shifts post 1968. Once seen as a lone figure, he now sits among allies, improving his prospects though unlikely to defeat the president.
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Lyndon Johnson
Chicago
Alexander
Ed Muskie
Humphrey
Senate
Byrd
Virginia
Russell
Georgia
Democratic Party
George McGovern
Armed Services
Ted Kennedy
William Fulbright
William Proxmire
John Lindsay
Hartke
Gravel
Abzug
Bayh
Wilbur Mills
Henry Jackson
Hubert Humphrey
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Critics and Vietnam coverage in a rightist column
The writer debates the Vietnam War coverage and Vietnamization, contrasting Gloria Emerson and Richard Nixon. He notes critics claim misjudgments by U.S. intelligence and media, cites differing views on ARVN competence, and questions who the layman should trust.
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Vietnam
John Kenneth Galbraith
Thieu
Richard Nixon
United States
Gloria Emerson
Ardennes Bulge
Eisenhower
Bastogne
Capital punishment defended as deterrent by Chicago group
Frank G. Carrington of Americans for Effective Law Enforcement argued before the U S House Judiciary Committee that capital punishment protects human life. He cited a Los Angeles study and California cases where criminals avoided or recanted killings due to the threat of the death penalty, and noted murderers released without it who killed again.
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Frank G. Carrington
Americans For Effective
Carrington
Judiciary Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
Police Department of
Los Angeles
L.A
California
Marshall McComb
State Supreme Court
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Anderson Newspapers, Inc
Jackson Street
Anderson
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Harriet W. Toner
Robert E. Jackson
Jane Toner Scott
Charles W. Laughlin
Herald
Associated Press
Alice Widener
Paul Harvey News
Paul Harvey
Holmes Alexander
Washington, D. C
White House
Ravensbruck
London
Buckley
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