Two-Party South Era Dawns in Five States
Democratic leaders in Georgia Alabama Louisiana Mississippi and South Carolina report a shift from one party rule after Goldwater's 1964 win. John Bailey says Democrats must run against Republicans for all offices and abandon personal politics. The change could shape Southern politics in the new two party era.
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Barry Goldwater
Democratic National Committee
John M. Bailey
Bailey
Fulton County
Democratic Party
Atlanta
Goldwater
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
South
Georgia
Court House
Capitol
Eisenhower speech on public and private sectors
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the National Industrial Conference Board criticizing government competition with private enterprise. He argued the private and public sectors are hard to delineate and warned against deficit politics and unfounded federal infallibility.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
National Industrial Conference Board
Resignation of New York Police Commissioner Highlights Public Support
Police Commissioner Michael J Murphy resigned after four years in command in New York City. Deputy Commissioner Joseph Martin blamed silent supporters who failed to defend the department against unfair criticism, noting the need for public backing to protect the public.
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New York
Michael J. Murphy
Murphy
Joseph Martin
The Dominican Republic crisis and the Communist question
A historical column questions U S policy in the Dominican Republic. It traces the three stages of U S statements on Reds in control, notes Col Francisco Caamano Deno as a constant rebel commander, and contrasts Johnson’s aims with Rusk and Bunker statements on neutrality and nonalignment.
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Johnson
Dominican Republic
U. S
Col
Francisco Caamano Deno
Caamano
Associated Press
Santo Domingo
Organization of American States
Ellsworth Bunker
Dominican
Republic
George Reedy
Dean Rusk
Johnson’s Labor Message and the Right to Work Debate
Lyndon Johnson asks Congress to repeal section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act despite polls showing broad opposition. The piece weighs Kennedy’s push for abolition of right to work, cautions against manipulating statistics, and frames the dispute as a test of national freedom and consensus.
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Lyndon Johnson
Congress
Oliver Quale
Bronxville
N. Y
Goldwater
Louis Harris
Gallup
Harris
Robert Kennedy
New York
Bobby Kennedy
Johnson
Kennedy
Senator Kennedy
South
Arizona
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Nevada
South Dakota
Utah
New Mexico
LBJ
Hawkbill Hill 327: Marines' Hawk Battery at Da Nang
HAL BOYLE reports on a U S Marines Hawk missile battery atop Hill 327 near Da Nang. Captain Everett Cowley leads 87 enlisted men in weathered boredom and quiet vigilance. They train to shoot down enemy aircraft threatening Da Nang air base with ground to air missiles and endure dusty, exposed outpost routines.
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South Viet Nam
da Nang
Okinawa
South China Sea
Laos War Strategy Puzzles U S And Laos Officials
VIENTIANE Laos with about two weeks to monsoon season officials weigh why Pathet Lao offensive has not emerged. Western observers cite three factors: territory near China and Vietnam already secured, risk of upsetting Geneva cochair powers, and intensified US bombing complicating troop buildup in Laos and North Vietnam.
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Vientiane
Laos
U. S
Pathet Lao
China
Viet Nam
South
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Dear Abby column excerpts on best man and piano bench
Dear Abby advises a brother’s choice of his father as best man is proper and touching. A reader asks how to handle patrons sitting at the piano with the suggestion to view their presence as a compliment and perhaps switch to a piano stool. A confidential note to Rob Bert urges self reliance and perseverance as the path to success.
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Abby
Dad
Jane
P. S
Robbert
Kennedy shifts power in Senate voting rights fight
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak report liberal anger at Cornelius Kennedy, a sharp young Republican lawyer guiding the voting rights bill through Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen and Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. Kennedy acts as adviser to Mansfield and the Democratic majority, shaping the civil rights bloc's fate.
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Senate
Cornelius Kennedy
Kennedy
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Neal Kennedy
Mansfield
Jority
Dirksen Draftsman backs sweeping federal action over Kennedy
The piece notes Dirksen backed broad federal measures while Neal Kennedy, soon to become a Washington lawyer for Motorola client work, drew ire. Kennedy remains unofficial Senate aide as voting rights bill passes, then opens private practice. A May 13 Senate floor incident tied Kennedy to a contested poll tax amendment.
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Kennedy
Neal Kennedy
Congress
Robert Galvin
Motorolay
Senate
Dirksen
Washington
Motorola
Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission
Mansfield
Philip Hart
Michigan
Jacob Javits
New York
Javits
Hart
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