Checkbook journalism and Nixon memoirs bidding debate
A 1975 Christian Science Monitor piece critiques checkbook journalism as networks bid for Nixon memoirs and Watergate interviews. William Sheehan of ABC News and CBS News chief Richard Salant warn against pre-selling breaking news. NBC and others weigh bids while fearing future censorship and delayed public disclosure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Unger
Boston
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
William Sheehan
Abc-Tv News
ABC
Sheehan
Richard Nixon
David Frost
San Clemente
Monitor
Nixon
Watergate
CBS News
Richard Salant
CBS
H.R. Haldeman
Mike Wallace
Frost
Salant
NBC News
Richard Ward
NBC
The Ford Congress oil price clash explained in Q and A
Washington reporters explain the Ford Congress fight over oil price controls by defining old oil versus new oil. The exchange frames old oil as cheaper and new oil as costlier, illustrating the policy debate in a concise Q and A format.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Ford
Congress
Old oil debate and travel notes from 1935 Vermont
A Q and A about converting old oil to new oil and price controls, with Ford's stance and conservation themes. The text then shifts to Aug 21 1935 in Prescott Chase sightings, Lake Shaftsbury swimming meet, and visits by Howard LaFlamme among Bennington locals, plus two post office inspectors from Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prescott A. Chase
Vermont Soldiers Home
Guildhall
Vermont
Berlin
N.H
Lake Shaftsbury
John B. James
Howard
LaFlamme
Bennington
Newark
Bennington survey links flood control and water study
Three Army Corps of Engineers representatives and Town Manager Paul Hermann join Gov. Harold J. Arthur in Bennington to survey flood damage and needs. The Bennington Water Board seeks a federal grant under the Housing and Urban Development Act to cover up to half the cost of new water sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Corps of Engineers
Paul Hermann
Bennington
Harold J. Arthur
Bennington Water Board
Marjorie E. Doyle
Arlington
Vermont General Assembly
Sandgate
Sunderland
Buttering Up Russia in Nixon Era Trade Debates
A critical overview accuses U S officials and private companies of steering grain exports to the Soviet Union to bolster détente. It cites Kissinger Butz Palmby Continental Grain and 1972 credit deals, alleging government subsidies and conflicts of interest, plus critique of Apollo Soyuz and detente.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Donald Kimball
Pepsi Cola
Congress
Lenin
Kissinger
Department of Agriculture
Russia
Earl Butz
Clarence D. Palmby
Butz
Palmby
Washington
Continental Grain Co
Continental
Carroll Brunthauer
Bernard Steinweg
House Agriculture Committee
Buzz
New York
Geo W. Ball
Apollo
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E. Howard Hunt
Hunt
Haldeman
Irving Lazar
Christian Science Publishing Society
Conrad
The
Torrington Register
By Dick West
A. No. Ford
Post Office
Bennington County
Law Library
Leon Trotsky
Mexico City
United States
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
San Quentin
California
Gibson
Freezer
C.f
Staxr Electric Incorporated
Sales & Service
Monument Plaza
Annapolis, MD
Solzhenitsyn
Armand Hammer
Occidental Oil
Brunthaver
Steinweg
Brunthauer
Cpice” N Niece
Natural and Organic
North St
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