Nixon Revival Plot Asks Ford Nixon Era Return
A dramatic fictional sequence portrays Richard Nixon plotting a political comeback using staged scenes in New York and San Clemente. It imagines Nixon selling San Clemente, moving into Rockefeller’s building, tapping tapes, pressuring Reagan and Rockefeller, and maneuvering Goldwater and Ford toward a Nixon presidency.
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Nixon
San Clemente
Fifth Avenue
Nelson Rockefeller
United States
Rockefeller
Nelson
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
New York
Sen. Goldwater
Gosh
Goldwater
Washington
White House
Ford
Henry
Peoria
Downey Bros Circus closes afternoon at local schools
In Bennington and area, The Graded School and Cora B Whitney School will shut in the afternoon to honor the Downey Bros circus. High school students may attend the night show and are expected to return to classes. Sixty Bennington High students enter competition for a new biweekly school paper next year, replacing Catamount.Governor Hoff says only 2.5 million in new taxes will be needed over two years, down 400,000 from earlier estimates. Richard Stolz Jr bound for Arlington Memorial High School graduation as commencement speaker after Soviet expulsion on espionage charges.
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Cora B. Whitney
Downey Bros
Bennington High School
Bennington Chamber of Commerce
Repertory Playhouse Associates Inc
Keene, N.H
Benmont Papers
Philip H. Hoff
Richard F. Stolz Jr
U.S. State Dept
Soviet Union
On This Date Highlights Key 1896 Ford Start
Henry Ford wheels his first car from a brick shed in Detroit for a trial run. The note marks a milestone in automotive history with Ford’s early testing in darkened streets.
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Henry Ford
Detroit
Israel
Egypt
Angela Davis
California
McCarthy Flirts With Presidency as Independent Hope
The 1975 profile portrays Eugene McCarthy as casually pursuing the presidency, arguing disillusionment with both major parties could boost an independent bid. It notes his potential to sway voters, especially youths and dissidents, and discusses his policy ideas on poverty, work, housing, transit, and a leaner Pentagon, while viewing Democrats and Republicans as refurbishing past reform labels.
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Eugene McCarthy
McCarthy
Columbus
America
Harold Stassen
Stassen
Pentagon
United States
South Korea
NATO
Israel
Japan
Democratic Party
Big Apple vs Big Orange for Democratic convention site
Opinion piece argues New York City, led by Madison Square Garden, should host the next Democratic National Committee convention, favoring New York over Los Angeles with New Orleans as a dark horse. Reminds readers of the 1924 Madison Square Garden gathering and praise for New York as cultural and world capital.
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Democratic National Committee
Madison Square Garden
New York
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Fred Allen
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Alfred E. Smith
William Gibbs McAdoo
California
John W. Davis
Wall Street
West Virginia
Coolidge
United Nations
Washington
Breslin’s Watergate portrait stars Tip O’Neill as rogue hero
Jimmy Breslin’s How the Good Guys Finally Won and James Bellows celebrate Thomas P. O’Neill as a reformist leader amid Watergate. The review highlights Breslin’s brisk, vivid storytelling, O’Neill’s independence on issues like busing and Vietnam, and the book’s lively moral arc despite the era’s scandal.
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Jimmy Breslin
Viking
Thomas P. O’neill
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Jimmy
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Breslin
Thomas Wolfe
New York
Watergate
Tip O’neill
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James Bellows
Richard Ward
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Bennington Dairy
King Chocolate Cake
Bennington Club
Bennington County
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Marvin Sanborn
North Bennington High School
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Godfrey Sperling Jr
Wallace
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Christian Science Publishing Society
Big Apple
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Select Committee
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Rodino
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Haynes & Kane, Inc
Enamsre
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