Helen Gahagan Douglas Endures Nixon Dirty Campaign
A stout tribute to Helen Gahagan Douglas, contrasting her principled Senate race against Richard Nixon in 1950 with Nixon's alleged dirty tactics. The piece highlights Douglas's career from actress to activist, her New Deal era work, Civil rights advocacy, and close alliance with Eleanor Roosevelt, ending with a lament over national politics and the loss of republican ideals.
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Richard Nixon
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Douglas
California
Nixon
Rep
Senate
Helen Gahagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Congress
Murray Chotiner
Joe McCarthy
Hard-Nosed Home Energy Tips From a St Louis Class
A 4th grade class shared practical energy tips via teacher Harold Dunn urging car sharing, local commuting, insulation, and reduced radio use. The list includes narrowing trips, working near home, avoiding new oil dependent inventions, and improving efficiency to ease the energy crisis.
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St. Louis
Harold Dunn
Looking Back at Greylock Hotel and aging roads
A collection of local notes covers road improvements near South Williamstown shortening Bennington to Pittsfield by 1.5 miles, bus use by Vermont National Guard, and bridge work on Beech Street funded partly by state aid. Also noted are a birthday anniversary, a pageant semi finalist, and historic and postwar events with editorial reflections on Nixon.
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Bennington
Bradford Hook and Ladder
Vergennes
Main Street
Bristol
Middlebury
Williamstown
Mass
Points South
North Adams
Pittsfield
Greylock Hotel
South Williamstown
Camp Edwards
Vermont National Guard
Beech Street
Clark’s Woods
William Morse Construction Co
South St
Morse
Herbert F. Dumas
River St
Thomas R. Carty
St. Francis de Sales
Robert F. Joyce
Burlington
Carolyn Ann Johnson
Fillmore St
Bennington Catholic High School
Vermont
Bardwell Hotel
Rutland
Johnson
Nixon Immunity Debate in Watergate Transcript Fallout
The editorial argues that granting Nixon immunity would threaten equal justice under law. It weighs prosecutions of Haldeman Ehrlichman Mitchell and others, compares to Spiro Agnew, and stresses there can be no immunity for Nixon from taxes or testimony. It urges openness, full justification, and pursuit of pending inquiries to uphold the Constitution.
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Richard Nixon
Nixon
Congress
Ford
Leon Jaworski
H.R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
John Mitchell
Spiro Agnew
Elliott Richardson
Agnew
Charles Colson
John Dean
Egil Krogh
Howard Hunt
Gordon Liddy
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Karen Dobkin Fortney
States
Melvyn Douglas
Europe
Ms. Magazine
Austria
Harold C. Pratt
Pownal
DX Century Club
Pratt’s
WIEZ
Bellows Falls
Brattleboro
United States
Albany
Schenectady
N.Y
Nagasaki
Washington
Ourslaves
Howard Hughes
Bebe Rebozo
Super Duper
West Main Motors
Paradise Motol
West Main Street
Bennington, VT
Main ST
Sharon Campbell
Catamount
North Bennington
Bennington / Bennington Plaza
Putnam Square
Manchester Center
West Dover
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