Milk Money and Political Influence Across Parties
Revelations about organized milk producers using vast sums to sway elections and boost profits cast a harsh light on special interest influence in U S politics. Columnist Jack Anderson traces seed money that returned millions in favors, while similar patterns emerge in airlines and oil, prompting calls for stronger reform and enforceable rules beyond impeachment rhetoric.
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White House
Jack Anderson
Measuring Detente and the Limits of Power Politics
The piece critiques Nixon and Kissinger’s detente as power driven, arguing that relation of power governs policy and limits influence. It notes a tension between nonintervention rhetoric and sanctions, urging concern for other peoples while supporting peace without forcing transformation. It calls for humane restraint in foreign policy.
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United States
Nixon
State Kissinger
United States Naval Academy
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Israel
Kissinger
Peking
Havana
Rhodesia
China
Projecting the News Homosexual Civil Rights Era Debate
The piece reviews gay rights progress and backlash after the APA removed homosexuality as a mental disorder. It cites New York City housing and employment discrimination battles, Boulder recall efforts, and growing civil rights efforts nationwide including ACLU actions, a DC anti-discrimination law, and plans to amend the Civil Rights Act to protect homosexual rights.
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American Psychiatric Association
New York City
Boulder
Colo
Penfield Tate
Timothy Fuller
Detroit
Minneapolis
Ann Arbor
San Francisco
Seattle
Berkeley
East Lansing
Mich
Columbus
Ohio
Washington, D.C
Milk lobby’s $2 million pledge tied to Nixon actions
Washington details reveal dairy producers to fund Republicans in 1970 and pledge $2 million for Nixon re election. Colson pressured for imports and price supports, with letters and memos linking funds to government actions though White House denies direct quid pro quo. Sworn testimony and internal memos trace the sequence from autumn 1970 through March 1971.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Charles Colson
Colson
Tariff Commission
Harrison
Pat Hillings
House
Hillings
Harrison and
Agriculture Department
Herbert Kalmbach
Chotiner
GSA
Detente Critique From Solzhenitsyn Letter to Congress
Solzhenitsyn blasts pseudo detente in a House Foreign Affairs hearing, arguing true detente requires reciprocal concessions and warns against relying on signed promises. He notes U.S. broadcasting oversight and rejects the stork birth metaphor used to describe political myths.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Benjamin Rosenthal
N.Y
Don. Fraser
Minn
Americans For Democratic Action
U.S
Rosenthal
Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe
Israel
Rep
United States
Board For International Broadcasting
Senate
Solzhenitsyn
Lawyer Douglas Caddy Forges Clash Over Labor Money in Campaigns
A youthful Watergate lawyer, Douglas Caddy, has produced The Hundred Million Dollar Payoff alleging heavy labor funding of political campaigns. He cites cases like E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, and lawmakers Williams and Metcalf, detailing union dues use, dummy committees, and per capita taxes to boost favored candidates.
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Douglas Caddy
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
Caddy
Harrison Williams
New Jersey
Aflcio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Williams
Senate Labor Committee
Lee Metcalf
Montana
Metcalf
Union Treasuries
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Thurgood Marshall
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United Feature Syndicate
Murray Chotiner
Marion Harrison
Senator Soaper
Sludgepump
Stork
Gramp
Europe
Czechoslovakia
University of Minnesota
Fraser
Panies
Storks
Labor
Big Labor
America