Great Presidents of Faith Guiding U.S. Leadership
The piece surveys 20th century presidents George Roosevelt, Kennedy, Washington Adams Jefferson Lincoln Wilson and others, tracing how deep religious faith shaped public service, moral leadership, and policy aims from the early 1900s through the 1920s, noting their denominations, beliefs, and clashes with politics.
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George W. Cornell
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Epistle of Jarmes
John F. Kennedy
God
Jefferson
Adams
Lincoln
Wilson
White House
David KE
Green
Edmund Fuller
Washington
Madison
Monroe
Jackson
van Buren
Polk
Buchanan
Cleveland
Hoover
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
William Henry Harrison
Taylor
Fillmore
Grant
Arthur
Taft
Hardin
Cuba
Roosevelt
Nine Tons Of Guns Found In Desert and Pomona
Authorities said buried caches of guns and explosives totaling nine tons may stem from unrelated collections. A shadowy front man is sought as investigators study files for a Jeff Martin. Donald Wiggins of Ontario is charged with illegal possession of machine guns and explosives. Wiggins is linked to a Pomona foundry where his half-brother Arthur Methe Jr. works. both face hearings in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Jeff Martin
Donald Wiggins
Ontario
Ron Moya
Wiggins
Arthur Methe Jr
Palmdale
Wiggins’ Foundry
Pomona
Public Hearings on $250000 CDBG Grants in Childress Texas
Two hearings set for December 14 and December 22 1976 at 2 00 pm in Council Chambers City Hall Childress Texas to discuss allocation of 250 000 Community Development Block Grant funds. Citizens may comment on eligible items including real property acquisition public works flood drainage senior centers street paving water and sewer parks and demolition of buildings. City Secretary Louis Sally invites all interested to attend.
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Council
Childress
Texas
Louis Sally City
Israel Targets Dead Sea Health Spas To Draw Tourists
Israel plans new mineral spring health resorts along the Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee to lure visitors. Officials cite cost advantages, psoriasis treatment success, and foreign expert endorsements as they seek to boost medical tourism and invite insurance plans to cover spa care.
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Israel
Dead Sea
Ken Klein
Tel Aviv
Herod
Michael Gidron
Ministry of Tourism
Sea of Galilee
Switzerland
Germany
Solomon
Sodom and
Gomorrah
Josephus Flavius
Rian
Eli Rosenthal
International Federation of Thermalism and Climatism
Religion in the White House and Watergate Shadow
The piece recalls President Nixon's ecumenical White House religion and prayer life, noting his Disciples of Christ background, Catholic daughter, and Nixon era prayers near Hanoi. It contrasts this with Watergate and his fall, while mentioning Gerald Ford as a practicing Episcopalian and his own faith.
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Harvard
Episcopal Christ Church
Heavenly
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Princeton University
White House
Lincoln
League of Nations
United States
U.S
National Presbyterian Church
Eisenhower
Potomac
Congress
Say
John F. Kennedy
Houston
Democratic Party
Kennedy
Tan Cote
Richard Nixon
King’s Chapel
Reinhold Niebuhr
Alley
Watergate
Gerald Ford
Mike
Jesus Christ
Ford
Duke of Gloucester invites Americans for Jubilee visit
The Duke of Gloucester, cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, thanks Americans for hospitality in the bicentennial year and invites them to Britain next year for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations in London and across Britain. He is a Cambridge-trained architect and East Midlands Tourist Board president. Also notes the first long distance telephone call in 1951 and Delaware crop data.
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New York
Duke of Gloucester
Elizabeth I
Britain
London
Duke
Cambridge University
London Architects
East Midlands Tourist Board
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George Clemenceau
League
International
Warren G. Harding
Chicago
Blackstone Hotel
Ohio
Elk. Moose
Robert S
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
St. James Episcopal Church
Hyde Park
N.Y
FDR
Eleanor
Soren Kierkegaard
Harry S. Truman
First Baptist Church
Bess
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brethren In Christ
Lyndon B. Johnson
Whitlow
New England University
Environment Agency
Abbr
Helsinki
Varnish
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Santa Claus
Delaware
MR. Flugg
T’s
Swenson
NEA, Inc
Psetersod
Faure ET
Wakefield Appliance Center
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