Nixon timing loss as crisis simmers in Washington
The piece laments President Nixon's poor timing amid a Congress without a vice president and a vacant attorney general post. It argues Ervin and Stennis offers could have defused the crisis if Nixon had pressed a different path, warning that his current gambit risks political ruin and impeachment.
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Gerald Ford
Congress
Senate
Hyde Park
N.Y
LBJ
Nixon
Ervin
Archibald Cox
Sen
John Stennis
Richard Russell
Stennis
Atty
Gen. Richardson
Cox
New York Times
Washington Post
Pravda
People’s World
Peking
Albert
Chou En-lai
Hangchow
Agnew case not real disaster argues White's take sharp
The essay discusses Theodore White’s view of Spiro Agnew as a leading conservative voice and argues Agnew’s downfall is tactical rather than existential. It emphasizes the enduring strength of postwar American conservatism, the primacy of order moralism, and the emergence of conservative intellectuals who are unlikely to be hushed.
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Theodore White
White
Spiro Agnew
Hoover
Agnew
T.S. Eliot
C.S. Lewis
Paul Tillich
W.H. Auden
Dartmouth
George
McGovern
Nixon
Amoys
William Buckley
Irving Kristol
Milton Friedman
Richard Whalen
Baltimore County
Free State of
Maryland
Crackdown Urged to Defeat Drug Abuse and Crime
An editorial urges a broad consensus to combat drugs with tough policing and penalties. It warns against casual drug use, stresses the harm to youth and society, and calls for united action by police, prosecutors, judges, and citizens to stop narcotics flow and curb widespread abuse.
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Damocles
United States
Rumor Culture Around Watergate Sparks Caution
The piece cautions against rumor spreading connected to Watergate and notes Justice William O. Douglas claiming his phone was tapped and alleging Johnson's line was as well. It urges Americans to seek solid certainty, not moral certainty, to protect trust in government and leaders.
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Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Johnson
Letters to the Editor Joke on you and a lost dog
A reader recalls a mistaken lost dog report leading to multiple visits to Lot 7 at Catalina Mobile Home Court. The true owner thanks a passerby who found and returned a purse, saving a family from hunger.
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Journal
Catalina Mobile Home Court
Lot 7
I-75
Paddock Road
A&p
Stennis Faces Discomfort Over Watergate Tape Handling
Nixon plans to hand over the Watergate tapes to Judge Sirica rather than Bebe Rebozo, complicating Senator John Stennis of Mississippi as the political season approaches. The Mississippi senator is portrayed as a reluctant observer amid the ongoing tape issue.
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John Sirica
Court of Appeals
New York
Sen
John Stennis
Nixon
John
Sirica
Bebe Rebozo
Mississippi
Nixon era satire and Cold War riffing on Watergate
The piece riffs on Watergate fallout and media coverage with satirical digs at Dennis the Menace, Kalmbach, and politics. It imagines alternative leaders like President Albert and Brezhnev Ford meetings, joking about the Sixth Fleet and a Rose Bowl trade.
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Brezhnev
Mediterranean
Michigan Ing
Middletown Journal subscription rates and delivery options
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices and delivery methods. It details weekday and Sunday single copy prices, home delivery by newspaperboy or motor route, and mail options with annual rates, plus a service charge for tube placement.
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The
News Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Newspaperboy
U.S.A
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Dennis the Menace
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Jacqueline Susann
ITT and Milk Trust
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