Nixon Signals End of Draft and Move to Volunteer Military
President Nixon announces plans to end conscription by mid 1973 and switch to an all volunteer force within three years. Defense Secretary Laird orders action, with higher base pay and enhanced enlistment incentives. Westmoreland and service chiefs enlist civilian groups to aid the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Chiefs of Staff
Thomas H. Moorer
Laird
William C. Westmoreland
Army
Army Association
Navy
Air Force
Congress
Civil liberties in wartime and the pull between law and power
The piece surveys how leaders from Lincoln to Trudeau wrestled with suspending habeas corpus and expanding executive authority during crises. It notes Lincoln’s 1861 military arrests, Taney’s rebuke, and later expansions under Wilson and wartime actions such as Japanese American relocations, warning against dictatorial measures eroding rule of law.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Abraham Lincoln
Canada
Trudeau
Lincoln
Congress
Supreme Court
Roger B. Taney
Baltimore
John Merryman
Taney
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Morison
Commager
American Republic
Department of Justice
Furious House probe into Nixon era FTC furnishings
A House subcommittee led by John Dingell orders a GAO inquiry into extravagant FTC office renovations under Caspar Weinberger. The $42,000 refurbishment including a $2,800 desk and $2,900 conference table sparks claims of misuse of taxpayer funds and possible stock-list violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
House
John Mitchell
Martha
Interior
Walter Hickel
John Dingell
D-Mich
House Regulatory Agencies
Dingell
General Accounting Office
Dingell Subcommittee
Caspar Weinberger
FTC
Weinberger
White House
Triad Population Rise Highlights Regional Growth Trends
Preliminary 1970 Census shows High Point-Greensboro-Winston-Salem at ninth among southern markets while Charlotte ranks fifteenth Raleigh twenty eighth and Wilmington thirty eighth. Fayetteville gains over fifty thousand yet misses top ten as the Triad counties Guilford Forsyth Randolph and Yadkin form a larger metro area.
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High Point
Greensboro-Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Raleigh
Wilmington
Fayetteville
Guilford
Forsyth
Randolph
Yadkin
Nashville, Tenn
Dixie
Campaigns Surge With 100 Million Television Spending
The piece notes a massive off year spend as candidates push television and radio ads to influence congressional, senatorial, and gubernatorial races. It highlights California New York Ohio and Texas as major Senate battlegrounds with multi million budgets and Rockefeller’s New York bid.
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House
Senate
California
New York
Ohio
Texas
Lion
Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Reserve
National Guard
Pouwnon
Mitchell
Executive Branch
Paul Rand Dixon
Dixon
Budget Office
U. S. Treasury
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Air Force Systems Command
H. C. Teubner
Weigle
Merry
By Jack Anderson
Fternon
Food and Drug Administration
National Society For Prevention of Blindness
Guilford County Humane Society
Greensboro Public Library
U.S. Humane Society
The
Humane Society
Pau Bailey
Johnston County
Bailey
Atlanta
Miami Peer
Tampa-St. Petersburg
PRR
Memphis
Birmingham
Norfolk
Oklahoma City
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
Fla
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Nashville
Tenn
Berry's
NEA
High Point Enterprise
Cotnishey Maddes
High Point Enterprise, Inc
Church Avenue
N. C
Associated Press
Cherighon
Cobjest
Momar’ Fen
Point
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