Platform compromise in Des Moines Iowa GOP convention
The Des Moines Republican state convention yielded a unity driven platform with concessions from conservatives and moderates alike. Endorsements were dropped for five amendments while two were kept, and a push for age and wage issues was rejected. The result aims to give the party a coherent stance voters can accept. Also a satirical postcard joke about a psychiatrist on vacation is noted.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Bob Taft
Dwight Eisenhower
Warren
Iown
Farmers voice debate at Iowa conservation commission meeting
Iowa lawmakers still include many farmers despite a one man one vote shift, with 41 farmers in the 1967 legislature. George Bevan protested deer hunting permit rules, arguing farmer representation remains strong though concerns about policy persist. The Jackson County area is represented by Lynn Battles Jr. and Bevan farms 1000 acres with his brothers near Bellevue.
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State Conservation Commission
Clinton
Iowa
George Bevan
Bevan
House
Senate
Bellevue
Jackson County
Lynn Battles, Jr
Maquoketa
Kennedy All or Nothing Man in War and Politics
Robert Kennedy embodied bold American traits and paid a heavy price for pursuing end to the Vietnam war and urban reform. He faced opposition from powerful forces, endured personal losses, and ultimately lost leadership and life, leaving a complex legacy of passion and tragedy.
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Ashington
Robert Kennedy
Vietnam
Israel
Johnson
States Rusk
New York
Paul Valery
Media complicit charge echoes in public grief after Kennedy tragedy
In a letter to the editor a mother and citizen denounces sensationalist journalism after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. She accuses news outlets and columnists of seeking scandal, calls for accountability, and pleads for media to rise above violence and degradation to serve American faith and democracy.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
America
Questioning God's Role After Man's Ability to Kill
A meditation on life created by God and humanity's diverse roles feed into a critique of violence. It questions who can determine sanity and whether any vocation justifies taking a life, contrasting sacred notions with human actions.
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Lincoln
Garfield
McKinley
Kennedy
Kelly
Abandoned paths of force in American violence debate
In a Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions symposium, five scholars argue Americans honor violence and rely on force at home and abroad. They compare past across nations and warn gun culture and televised brutality fuel future violence while urging cooperation and nonviolence.
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Washington
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Santa Barbara
Calif
The
Center Magazine
Martin Luther King, Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
Hallock Hoffman
Pacific Foundation
Stringfellow Barr
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Frank K. Kelly
Kansas City
Senate
Democratic Policy Committee
Episcopal
James A. Pike
John Wilkinson
Universities of
Chicago
California
America
Joke Gone Wrong Leads to Fine and Jail Time
A judge questions a man accused of theft and learns the offender claimed it was a joke. He admits removing a coat from a restaurant rack and taking it home, prompting a sentence of fifty dollars and ten days in jail for carrying the joke too far.
Tie Vote Halts Price Support Extension Debate in House
In the House Rules Committee a 6 6 tie blocked a move to extend farm subsidies beyond 1969. Rep. Ray Madden led opposition citing boondoggle costs and missed aid for education and antipoverty programs, while Rep. Poage defended extending subsidies for farmers amid a contentious debate with farm bloc allies and several key votes.
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Ashington
Congress
House Rules Committee
Ray Madden
Gary
Ind
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Agriculture Committee
Rules Committee
House
Madden
Poage
Washington
B. F. Sisk
Fresno
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Che
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Farmer
By James Reston
New York Times News Service
Oregon
James Reston
People's Forum
Joseph L. Myler
Fund For the Republic, Inc
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Salem
Barr
Hoffman
Pike
Wilkinson
Michael Novak
Novak
Stanford University
Lee Harvey Oswald
President Kennedy
Texas Tower
Richard Speck
Boston
Milton Greenblatt
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Greenblatt
Robert M
Hutchins
the Lion
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Skeptical
William Colmer
D-Miss
E. C. Eastland
Sen. Eastland
Doddsville
Miss
James Delaney
N.Y
John Anderson
Ill
James Quillen
Tenn
Dave Martin
Neb
Delbert Latta
Ohio
Colmer
Sisk
Richard Bolling
John Young
Tex
Claude Pepper
Fla
Spark Matsunaga
Hawaii
Anderson
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