Death signals of GOP over race quotas in federal hiring
The piece argues the Republican Party has failed during six years in power by permitting HEW and the Labor Department to impose race based quotas through affirmative action. It cites Johnson's 1967 order, the Philadelphia and Long Island plans, and cases like the University of Massachusetts, highlighting discrimination against white middle Americans and alleged liberal exploitation of issues.
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Uni
J. Stanley Pottinger
Lyndon Johnson
Philadelphia
Long Island
Department of Philosophy
University of Washington
Philosophy
Critics debate 25th Amendment reforms and vice presidential vacancy
The article discusses Congress and poll critics urging changes to the 25th Amendment amid two leaders serving without election. It notes hearings likely in 1975, options like special elections or abolishing the VP post, and the risk to unity. Birch Bayh calls it easy to find fault.
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Gerald Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Electoral College
Indiana
Birch Bayh
Judge Gesell backs public domain Watergate tapes
The federal judge ruled Watergate Oval Office tapes are public property and cannot be restrained by subsequent use rules. Critics say releasing them invites commercialization and breaches of taste, but enforcing responsible use clashes with the First Amendment, leaving ongoing upheaval in Watergate coverage.
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Gerhard Gesell
White House
Gesell
Oval Office
Pole to Stay During Mall Wiring Switchover on Main Street
Frank Neal of CGE explains a traffic pole on Canal Street near First Avenue will remain until mall tenants finish rewiring and switching to new voltage. The completion date slipped from 1974 and a ceremony may follow.
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Cg&e
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Verity Parkway South
First Avenue
Frank
CIA Domestic Dossiers Originated in 1967 Under Johnson
Former official argues Johnson did not authorize CIA domestic work but notes IDIU action and FBI–CIA information sharing as the root. The piece contends CIA dossiers began as FBI carbons and questions if Nixon era counterintelligence expanded the effort, urging a blue ribbon investigation.
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Johnson
CIA
Pentagon
LBJ
Castro
Cuba
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
IDIU
Ramsey Clark
Nixon
White House
Blue Ribbon Panel
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The journal lists daily and Sunday paper prices for newsstands home delivery and motor routes. It notes weekly, monthly, and yearly subscription pricing, payment terms, and a 1857 founding background.
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News Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
U.S.A
Behind anti-Simon push Ford treacherous or prudent?
Washington analysis centers on a covert bid by Roy Ash and Robert Hartmann to push William Simon from the Treasury. President Ford publicly backs Simon, while questions linger about Ford’s awareness and possible tacit approval of the campaign.
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Treasury
Gerald Ford
Henry Kissinger
Donald Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld
Mr. Ford
Simon
Roy Ash
Robert Hartmann
Hartmann
Ash
Treasury Post
George Shultz
Nixon
Federal Energy Post
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