Negro Leader James Farmer joins Nixon administration
James Farmer, former national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, becomes assistant secretary for administration at HEW. He says inside work can help shape events, while facing some readers calling him an Uncle Tom. The move makes him a high ranking Black official in the new administration.
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Congress of Racial Equality
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Farmer
Welfare
Rob
Uncle Tom
Nixon
Freedom Riders
Tac
Byrnes Hospitalized at 89 in Columbia South Carolina
Former Secretary of State James F Byrnes aged 89 remained in satisfactory condition at Baptist Hospital in Columbia. He was placed in intensive care for protection and doctors indicated they were not fearful for his life. The report also notes late returns in the United Steelworkers presidency race with L W Abel leading, while singer Bobby Darin recovered from acute pneumonia at home in Hollywood.
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James F. Byrnes
Franklin Roosevelt
Baptist Hospital
Columbia
S.C
Byrnes
L. W. Abel
United Steelworkers of America
Abel
Emil E. Narick
Bobby Darin
Hollywood
Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould Separate
Barbra Streisand and husband Elliott Gould announce their separation to save their marriage. Streisand, 26, stars in Hollywood filming, Gould, 30, in New York. They married September 15, 1963 and have son Jason Emanuel, 2. Gould once described Streisand as a freak. Police seek a thief who stole David Janssen’s Rolls Royce convertible worth $32,000 from a garage where it was being serviced.
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Barbra Streisand
Elliott Gould
Miss Streisand
Hollywood
Gould
New York
Jason Emanuel
David Janssen
Helicopter Losses, Vietnam War Escalate Across Saigon and A Shau
Reports from Saigon indicate U S helicopters faced heavy fire with three downed and four damaged, six American lives lost in one day. Attacks continued near the A Shau Valley where 5 000 Allied troops pressed to seal Tet offensive corridors.
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Saigon
U.S
A Shau
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Rockefeller urges surtax for state aid and welfare plan
Governor Nelson Rockefeller urges President Nixon to extend the 10 percent income surtax as an ongoing source of federal aid to state and local education and proposes federal takeover of welfare funded by tax revenue growth. He also backs a compulsory national health insurance program.
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Washington
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Nixon
White House
Rockefeller
Nixon pays tribute at Lincoln Memorial wreath ceremony
President Nixon, hatless in warm sun, laid a floral wreath before the Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial and stood in silence as taps played by an Army bugler echoed.
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Nixon
White House
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial
Long Beach Daily Bulletin front matter highlights
The copy details the February 13 1969 issue of a Long Beach California daily excluding weekends, listing publication address Sixth Street and Pine Avenue, Long Beach 12 California, court adjudication dates, postal matter numbers, and subscription rates per month and year.
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Sixth St
Pine Ave
Long Beach
Calif
Long Beach 2
Superior Court
Los Angeles County
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Congress
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Redship
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Lee Soo-keun
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Panmunjom Armistice Talks
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Heinrich Luebke
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Miami
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Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
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New York Times Service
Soviet Union
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David D. Thomas
Thomas
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Switzerland
Clark Ave
Lakewood
DOD
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