After The Primaries Carter Emerges As Change Agent In Dems
The piece argues Carter’s primary run reshaped the Democratic Party by appealing to a broad cross section and demystifying Wallace’s threat, while Republicans Ford and Reagan remain ideologically split. It notes low turnout, ongoing convention battles, and lingering doubts about Carter winning most voters in the general election.
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Jimmy Carter
Ford
Ronald Reagan
California
Ohio
New Jersey
Carter
Alabama
George Wallace
Nations Democratic Party
Vietnam
Watergate
Washington
Heagan
Janmy Carter
UNC medical grads staying locally climbs in 1976
The UNC School of Medicine reports 51 of 121 graduates will pursue in state internships this year, the largest retention in seven years at 42 percent. Five join Mountain Area Health Education Foundation in Asheville for family medicine, while 70 will intern in other states. Local doctors see returnees as reasonably strong though no clear pattern for practice location. Steps in North Carolina’s area health education centers aim to keep graduates local or bring them back from distant residencies.
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UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill
Duke
Greensboro
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Wilmington
Fort Bragg
Mountain Area Health Education Foundation
Asheville
High Point
UNC
North Carolina
Pentagon Papers and After A Chronicle of Secrecy and Disclosure
The June 1971 Times Pentagon Papers series sparked a fierce clash over government secrecy versus public right to know. It traced decades of U.S. policy, faced court blocks, and influenced outlets like The Washington Post and CBS. Leaks continued into the 1970s amid debates on national security and press freedom.
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New York Times
Vietnam
Pentagon
U.S
Tricia Nixon
White House
Neil Sheehan
Pentagon Papers
Robert S. McNamara
Justice Department
U.S. District Court
Jurce
Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun Times
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Republic
Nixon Administration
United States
Senate Watergate Committee
CBS
Daniel Schorr
House Committee
Village Voice
New York City
Schorr
Ellyberg
Lighting a Nose to Light a Federal Regulator
A conservative column critiques the Investment Advisers Act Amendments of 1976. It argues the bill creates an expansive federal licensing scheme for advisers, likening it to Virginia's failed state board of examiners for photographers. The piece mocks the need, cites costs, and warns of overreach and bureaucratic growth.
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Senate Banking Committee
Investment Advisers Act
Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia State Board of Photographic Examiners
Harrison Williams
New Jersey
Telephone firms gird for battle over home equipment
Washington scene reports a Capitol Hill clash over consumer rights to buy home telephone gear. FCC argues competition lowers costs and improves service while AT&T warns of higher rates to cover lost revenue. Bell System seeks legislation to nullify FCC rulings, with heavy lobbying and stockholder outreach.
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Washington
Congress
Brouhaha
American Telephone and Telegraph
John deButls
Capitol Hill
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Bell System
Bell
Senate Commerce
Warren Magnuson
D.wash
Senate Communications
Jabt Pastore
D.R
deBults
Pastore
Vance Hartke
D.-Ind
Tong Roncalio
Wyo
At&t
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner In Washington
The Art Buchwald column imagines a Bicentennial dinner survey with figures like Jefferson Nixon and Deep Throat as guests. A humorous monologue muses on meeting Woodward, Watergate, and a possible collaboration for a film and book while nibbling fried chicken and beer in a garage.
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Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
al Capone
Richard Nixon
Watergate
Africa
Sans Souci
Washington Post
Bob Woodward
Robert Redford
Woodward
White House
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Colson
Niven
Tally
Tse
Deep Throat
New York Times
Bernstein
Hal Holbrook
United States
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