Law and Order Editorials in the 1960s election mood
Editorial contrasts two American political outlooks as conventions approach. Rockefeller Lindsay McCarthy Hoff favor new leadership rooted in justice. Reagan Wallace Nixon push law and order to curb unrest. Lindsay warns force cannot solve causes. advocates massive public investment to alleviate despair and alienation in ghettos and campuses.
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HEW
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National Governors’ Conference
Vietnam War Critique and Political Fears
Editor notes condemn the Vietnam war escalation and warn against a Nixon Regan hawkish ticket. The piece contrasts Johnson Westmoreland and McNamara claims with 1965 reality, predicts protracted conflict, and questions the White House’s path. It also laments Bennington family’s costly air conditioner investment and jokes about borrowed garden tools.
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Westmoreland
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Richard Nixon
Free Enterprise Under Threat From Subscription TV Debate
John Chamberlain argues against government imposed financing rules for pay TV and accuses large networks and theater owners of fear, laziness, and cupidity. He cites FCC trial limits and a House committee delay, urging free citizens to decide via consumer choice. The piece condemns regulatory constraints as undermining free enterprise.
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Wall Street Journal
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House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Harley Staggers
West Virginia
Congress
United States
Professor at Large Catholics In Revolt
In Annapolis, Md the Rev Edward J Sponga head of the Maryland Province of the Jesuits resigns from the priesthood to marry a divorcee. His 800 priests face possible disruption as the Woodstock seminary plans to move to New York to share facilities with Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Sept 1969.
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Jewish Theological Seminary
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Galileo
Washington Calling Can McCarthy Defeat Hubert at All Costs
Washington analysis surveys Senator Eugene McCarthy’s rise reflecting broad discontent over war, prices, and urban decay. It contrasts his diverse base and antiwar stance with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, whose Johnson-era record is blamed, while McCarthy’s backers push hard for protests and third-party options.
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Shakespeare and the 1968 conventions.
Washington UPI notes debates over Shakespearean quotes as signals for Democratic and Republican platforms. Scholars mine Henry VI lines for hawk dove policies on Vietnam, crime and reform, while predicting the conventions will unfold in a Shakespearian way as parties shape antiwar and crime planks.
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Annapolis, Md
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James Kavanagh
National Association For Pastoral Renewal
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Lay Catholic Congress
Barbara Ward
England
Thomas P. Melady
Pope Paul
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Chicago
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Nelson Rockefeller
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