Rose Garden Talk Echoes Johnson Moral Battles
In a Rose Garden appearance President Johnson entertained medical delegates and Northern elders while railing against a devalued Medicare myth. He framed a "right" to an adequate and decent home and meaningful retirement, arguing for expansive benefits that disregard earning, color, or origin. The piece criticizes welfare without incentive and urges more private Oval Office dialogue.
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Texas
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R Stowe
Jonxson
Hero
National Council of
White Mouse
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Oldsters
Jonnson
Oval Office
Virginia raises minimum age for driving permits
The 1966 Virginia General Assembly increased the minimum age for temporary instruction permits and operator licenses after debates praising high school driver education. The piece cites Driver Education debates, opinions from New Jersey officials, and local attitudes toward teen driving, plus scattered political asides and jokey observations. It notes that teen driving prompts calls for higher ages and references noise limits in bars and comments by political figures.
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General Assembly
New Jersey State Bar Association
Joan J. Gresons
Newark Star-Ledger
Grigons
Do it yourself pork sparks clash with hog raisers
Current Opinion notes Agriculture Department promotes DIY pork to impoverished Appalachia and beyond. Bulletin claims hogs can be raised cheaper than buying pork, even as professional production rises. Economists foresee possible price drops this year, prompting farmers to question Washington aid and seek self reliance.
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United States
Washington
Buckley on Professors and Galbraith on Vietnam
William F Buckley Jr critiques professors while John Kenneth Galbraith delivers Rhode Island College commencement remarks urging U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam His analysis questions Dean Rusk and notes Galbraith’s elite bias and poll driven views toward the war and public opinion The piece situates Galbraith near the Kennedy circle and comments on the political winds shaping foreign policy debates
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Rhode Island
United States
Galbraith
Kennedy Development
Kennedy
Robert
Cognoscenti
Delphos
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Bobby Kennedy
Dr. Galbraith
Dean Rusk
Rusk
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News Dispatch
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House
Gerald Ford
Vietnam
Stalin
Johnson
Bobby
South Vietnam
Red China
Namara
Emergent Africa on brink of upheaval warns essayist
A columnist argues emergent Africa faces civil strife and political instability across Nigeria Uganda and Congo regions with revolutions coups and foreign intervention. The piece critiques past forecasts by Bowles and Galbraith while noting Portuguese and South African advances and Rhodesia’s skewed progress amid global diplomacy.
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Nigeria
Uganda
Congo
Algeria
Alegria
Morocco
Tunisia
Hamnegun
Sudan
Senegal
Mauretania
Mali
Chad
Moscow
Peiping
United States
Manfred Arcane
France
Red Apparatus Uses 26 Fronts in Kentucky Inquiry
A longtime anti communism focus traces the Communist Party's move from New Orleans to Louisville Kentucky. It notes 26 subversive fronts led by a renamed Southern Conference Educational Fund and the recruitment of DuBois Clubs on Kentucky campuses. The piece highlights alleged funds, youth activism, and alleged attempts to influence universities and state politics. It frames Kentucky as a national pattern, with Berkeley and other cities cited as outcomes of underground activity.
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New Orleans
Latin America
South
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Broadway
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HUAC
New
Southern Conference Educational Fund
University of Kentucky
Berkeley
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Petus
Red Underground
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Appalachia
Great Society
Russia
New York
University of California
America
Lynda Bird Trip Sparks GOP Cash-Flow Clash
John Chamberlain weighs in on Lynda Bird Johnsons Spain graduation trip and the presidents foreign spending. Rep FH R Cross of Iowa blasts the journey as the balance of international payments worsens, urging efficiency at home to curb dollar outflow. Dr N R Daniellans policy study calls for about $3 billion in annual savings and reforms in aid, manufacturing, and exports to fix the deficit.
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Spain
FH. R. Cross
Iowa
Lynda Bird
White House
Representative Gross
Lyndon Johnson
U.S
Landa
Bird Johnson
Congress
Gross
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Department of Commerce
St. Lawrence Seaway
International Economic Policy Association
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St. Lawrence ‘Seaway
Tate
United States
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Latin America
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