McNamara’s Exit Triggers Budget Shock and Pentagon Excess
Editorial notes McNamara cried at farewell while Johnson hosted the ceremony. Pentagon planning swells, with budgets rising to 102 billion for next year and 73 billion for non Vietnam aims. New defense secretary faces a culture of extravagant spending and a powerful military-industrial complex.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Congo
Latin America
William Fulbright
Columbia University
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Congress
Clack Clifford
Washington
Fin-it
Vote Test Of Management In South Charleston
In South Charleston today voters weigh municipal management amid deficit spending concerns. The article recalls four years under Mayor L Q Mellwain with spending on land for Little Creek Park, road work, hospital access, a library site, parking, and a fire station funded from current revenues while investments earned over $36 500 in interest. The city cut small business sales tax, exempted seniors from fees, and lowered property tax rates reducing potential revenue by about 170 000.
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South Charleston
L. Q. Mellwain
Little Creek Park
Thomas Hospital
Spring Hill
Obote urges cease fire amid Nigeria-Biafra talks
Uganda's President Obote urged a cease-fire as peace talks opened in Paris. He condemned mass killings and fear, pleading that bloodshed stop while civilians suffer, urging leaders to end the civil war and brutality.
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Uganda
Nigeria
Biafra
Paris
Vietnam
Readers' Forum criticizes city planning and space program editorials
The Gazette prints letters from Sue W. Stitt and Lillian Snyder urging the Kanawha Valley Board of Education to consider alternatives to Southmoor Country Club for education and criticizing editorials on von Braun and the NRA. They argue for funding recreation and equality and call for thoughtful governance.
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the Gazette
A. L. Hardman
Kanawha Valley
Southmoor Country Club
Charleston
Fied
Board of Education
Jeaders
Sue W. Stitt
Robin Hood Rd
Wernher von Braun
von Braun
Correction to Readers' Forum letter attribution in Nitro
The lead letter criticizing the Nitro city administration was not written by Robert Lee Martin of 1241 Mein Ave Nitro. The editorials on the subject remain instructive but not always in the way intended. Further letters appear on the opposite page.
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Nitro
Robert Lee Martin
Mein Ave
Guy Cuthbert
A Valley Rd
Save Face or Lives in Vietnam Peace Talks
The piece parallels 1952 Korea talks with today as casualties rise in Vietnam. It notes public impatience, calls for patience from Harriman and Ball, and pressure on Johnson to pause bombing. Ky threatens penal measures for neutralist talk as Saigon hardens stance.
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Truman
U.S
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Asia
Mothers of America
U. S
Korea
Paris
Averell Harriman
Citizens Committee For Peace With Freedom
Vietnam
Hanoi
George Ball
U.N
Johnson
North Vietnam
Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Washington
Saigon
Senator Survine decries Poor People Campaign lobbying
Washington Senator Bosworth Survine of Massachusetts denounces the Poor People's Campaign for seeking misery relief as shameful and says its lobbying is poorly executed. He mocks clergy led delegations and favors hiring White House staffers and retired congressmen to influence policy while arguing poverty is essential to national security.
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Washington
Bosworth Survine
Massagravy
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Survine
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White House
Afl-Cio
Capitol
Teamsters
Sixteenth Street
Parsons
den. Suryine
Sen. Survine
Treasury
America
M¢Re
Sweden
Denmark
Sen
McCarthy Proves He’s No Patsy in California Race
The piece portrays Senator McCarthy as a major political figure alongside Humphrey and Kennedy, blending humor with disdain for the administration. It notes his antiwar stance, vow to expose old politics, and sharp wit. In Oregon he thrives on targeting Kennedy’s entourage and old-style politics.
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Humphrey
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Cyril Connelly
Vietnam
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Hubert Humphrey
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
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Nebraska
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Dean Rusk
State Department
Gen
Lewis Hershey
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Birch Bayh
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Nixon
America
McCarthy Gains Ground in 1968 Primaries Mood Upswing Noted
An intercepted 1968 message assesses George McCarthy's campaign traction with educated whites in Oregon and Washington and California as Kennedy seeks urban voter blocs. It contrasts McCarthy's expanding base with Nixon's strength among lower and middle income whites. It calls for reframing elite distrust into constructive sentiment toward ordinary Americans.
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Lane County
University of Oregon
McCarthy
Washington County
Gold Coast
Portland
California
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Adlai Stevenson
Richard Nixon
Gene McCarthy
Potomac Fever and Tax Bill Fight Stir Washington
LBJ plans to sign a tax bill despite a $6 billion spending cut. The Poor People walk out on a $20 Agriculture Department cafeteria lunch. A new game at Agriculture, and a note on a dinner crowd and debate rules with Kenedy and McCarthy referenced.
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Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Kenedy
McCarthy
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