Johnson says he could have won if ran for president in 1968
In a CBS interview Lyndon Johnson says he could have been re elected in 1968 but warned he could not unite the country. He cites Lady Bird Johnson influence and says Hubert Humphrey and Bobby Kennedy would have faced forces opposing his tax and Vietnam policies. He notes McCarthy and Kennedy did not alter his choice to step down.
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Lady Bird
Robert F. Kennedy
United States
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Hubert Humphrey
Vietnam
Eugene J. McCarthy
New Hampshire
Robert Kennedy
Shi
Lyndon B. Johnson
Perot proposes aid airlift to Hanoi and Moscow for prisoners
North Vietnam refused to admit H Ross Perot and his two planeloads of Christmas gifts for American prisoners. He proposed flying 1400 canned dinners to Hanoi and medical supplies to Moscow for relay through Soviet channels to prisoners. Perot met Vu Tien but was refused permission to fly to Hanoi.
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Laos
North Vietnam
H. Ross Perot
Texas
Hanoi
Moscow
Perot
Vu Tien
Hope Plaza Low-Cost Housing Gets FHA Planning OK
The Hope Plaza project wins FHA feasibility endorsement for 124 units on 11 acres at First and Michigan. Coordinator Charles Saunders leads the committee as drawings and specifications advance. rent ranges from 101 to 124 dollars monthly with subsidies possible, and funds totaling about 123,027 are in play with a commitment deadline of April 27.
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Hope Plaza
Federal Housing Authority
Charles Saunders
FHA
First
Michigan
Fred Six
After Christmas sales buoy merchants in brisk market
Shoppers exchanged gifts amid year end sales and clearances as merchants reported upbeat Christmas season results. Weather forecasters warned of an approaching snowstorm with up to four inches possible in northwest Kansas and colder weekend temperatures expected.
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Larry Flannery
Weaver’s
Kansas
Road Toll Reaches 242 Over Christmas Holiday Weekend
The nation’s Christmas holiday weekend traffic deaths climbed to 242 as snow, freezing drizzle, and rain snarled highways. Fatalities were tallied from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday across the East Midwest and Far West regions.
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Midwest
Dow Jones closes higher as industrials gain
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finishes at 797.65, up 3.50 points as investors push major stocks higher in today trading session. The advance reflects broad gains across key sectors led by industrials and financial shares.
Little Girl Found Alive After Christmas Disappearance
Six year old Kathy Adams was located today at a furnished but unoccupied farm home northwest of Little River Kansas. She was unclothed but unhurt and taken to Little River Hospital. Authorities said she rode in a red car with white interior and walked nearly two miles to reach a farmhouse after being dropped near clothing found at a bridge over Horse Creek. The search involved 150 volunteers and local officers. the girl described the car and said she woke on a couch in a warm room before resting.
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Kan
Kathy Adams
Kansas
Richard Tucker
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Rice County
Don Young
KBI
Kathy
John Adams
Randy Adams
Lyons
Fred Crandall
Pretty Prairie
Horse Creek
Santa Fe Railroad
Solomon
Adams
Loretta
Bill
CFCA to Expand Fertilizer Plant Near Lawrence to 60 Million
CFCA of Lawrence announces an 18 million expansion at the 40 million site east of Lawrence on K 10. The plan includes a 1 000 ton a day anhydrous ammonia plant to be built by M W Kellogg Co and a new single train high heat recovery system powered by three steam turbines totaling 37 000 horsepower. Construction starts spring with completion expected late summer 1971 and start up in September 1971.
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Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn. of
Lawrence
John Ff. Anderson
CICA
Farmland Industries
Kansas City
Farmland
CFCA
Kansas
Anderson
M. W. Kellogg Co
New York
Viet Cong Violations End Christmas Truce in Vietnam
Saigon AP report says the Viet Cong ended a three day Christmas truce with no major fighting. U S and South Vietnamese forces resumed operations Christmas night amid 111 truce violations and 100 enemy killed 11 captured. Allied casualties 12 South Vietnamese killed 25 South Vietnamese and three Americans wounded and two government soldiers missing. B52s and fighter bombers resumed raids in the Northwest and Mekong Delta while helicopter gunships supported ground troops. Ho Chi Minh Trail bombing continued through eastern Laos to slow North Vietnamese infil tration. Casualties overall fell last week.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Holiday Christ mas Observed Across Nation with Gifts and Church Services
Festive scenes unfold from Washington to New York as Americans celebrate Christmas with church carols and family meals. President Nixon and Mamie Eisenhower share a White House visit, Salvation Army feeds thousands, and protests flank a California grape boycott with tense church door confrontations. Bishop Brunini urges Mississippi unity, inmates host a Christmas party for two families, and a Honolulu reunion follows a disrupted Vietnam flight.
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Nixon
White House
Mamie Eisenhower
Eisenhower
G. Gordon Moore
New York
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
Honolulu
James F. Armpriest
Navy
Cam Ranh Bay
Vietnam
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