After Wallace Shooting Echoes on National Politics
The writer reflects on the Laurel Md assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace, noting the irony that his presence energized the campaign yet he may not win the nomination. It questions violence's impact on leadership, public outrage, and a possible national desensitization to political murder.
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George Wallace
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Mason-Dixon Line
Teddy
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Maryland
Wallace
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
Mary McGrory’s Senate War Worries and White House Tactics
In a May 9 Senate Democratic caucus discussion about Haiphong and Vietnam, senior members grouse over being sidelined as President Nixon’s plans loom. Church and Case push a war-fund cutoff with POWs returned, Byrd seeks an international ceasefire, and Byrd’s tweak risks endorsing Nixon’s peace bid. The House leans tougher on ceasefire, while the Senate frets, reading no mind from the President and fearing his threats. The body is described as brave yet unreconciled, like the South Vietnamese army, with little will to act.
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Haiphong Harbor
Frank Church
Idaho
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Clifford Case
New Jersey
Middle America
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Nixon
Hanol
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Foreign Affairs Committee
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Democratic Party
Ranity
Yorty
George McGovern
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Manel
New York Times
Washington Post
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Los Angeles Times
Robert Elegam
Moscow
Peking
Haro
Hani
Hanoi
Hane
Mcdalliffe
Hough
Escgla
Eugene McWarthy
Paris
Saigon
Sage
Cambndia
Thailand
Russia
China
Sam
Ics
Nalbon
Innocent Smith Lindsay Faces Cop Scandal After Return
New York Mayor John Lindsay returns amid a police corruption case. Three sergeants, 20 patrolmen, and one policewoman were indicted and suspended for taking payoffs to protect gamblers linked to the Mafia. A lieutenant, Fletcher Houston, shot himself when under investigation. The piece also covers GOP and Texas race comments and media commentary on Vietnam.
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New York
John Lindsay
Fletcher Houston
Public Morals
13Th Division
Brooklyn
Memorial Day respect and a push for honor
A letter decries declining Memorial Day reverence for fallen and serving troops, urging national recognition and a combined Memorial and Veterans Day. It contrasts respect with tax policy favoring oil interests, questions depletion allowances, and warns about dependence on foreign oil as a future risk. LEW M. WARDEN JR, San Leandro.
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Thetay
Middle East
Arabiah
Surrender chorus voices contrast Nixon speech on Vietnam
Morrie Ruskind laments Nixon Hanoi policy while critics in Congress and media denounce the move. The piece argues that bipartisan disunity weakens the U S stance, ceding ground to the Soviet Union and Red China, with calls to back a president who can press for peace and defend the nation.
Reform proposals threaten tax hikes and education funding
Speaker Bob Moretti unveils a 14 billion tax reform package with a 500 million tax increase aimed at schools. Bagley joins with amendments to boost sales, bank and corporate taxes, sin taxes, and motor vehicle fees totaling about 1.3 billion. Revenue sharing may add 260 million for education, but if Congress blocks it, higher taxes loom. Critics call it a tax shift that still hits taxpayers and local districts hard.
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D‘van Nuys
California
Reagan Administration
William T. Bagty
Ayan Rafael
Papa
Kenneth Hail
Bagley
Aroue
Sacramento
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le Duc Tho
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Rus Walton
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