Nixon open press conference drawn in mixed review
The piece defends Nixon for emerging from seclusion and asserts the presidency must be open to scrutiny by taxpayers. It criticizes secrecy, questions unanswered during the press event, and argues the press as a watchdog balanced by public opinion.
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Nixon
San Clemente
Watergate
United States
Brough
White House
Soviet Union
Arden
Slater
Almanac for Friday August 31 1973 highlights
Today is Friday August 31 1973 the 243rd day of the year with 122 days remaining The history items recall events from 1920 1914 1935 1940 1954 and 1971 including King Edward I exile liquor bans by Rhode Island to Indians German WWI actions Roosevelt neutrality act British bombing Berlin Hurricane Carol and Nixon executive privilege claims.
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Associated Press
England
Edward
Rhode Island General Assembly
Tannenberg
Poland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S
Berlin
United States
Embassys Letter Bomb Raises Irish Conflict Questions
Washington reacts to a British Embassy letter bomb injuring a secretary as IRA violence from Ulster and London shifts to U S soil. MIT professor Bell notes rising Irish American support for the IRA, while Kennedy’s calls for Ulster action spark editorials and debate on peacekeeping and Irish independence.
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Paul Healy
Washington
Ulster
London
U.S
England
Northern Ireland
David de Boinville
de Boinville
J. Bowyer Bell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Secret Army
MIT Press
Bell
IRA
Ireland
America
Nora Murray
County Galway
Jimmie Murray
New York City
United Independent Ireland
Ted Kennedy
Senate
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Nixon
Heath
Bermuda
Aspin Cuts Pentagon Budget Ceiling In House Vote
Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a former Defense economist, secured a House amendment setting a spending ceiling for the Pentagon. The move, accomplished in his second term, involved decisive budget reductions totaling about $950 million. The article notes the recess period and the editor's note on staffing the column.
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Robert S. Allan
Washington Monthly
Les Aspin
Pentagon
Wisconsin
House
Aspin
Defense Department
House spending ceiling on defense cuts stirs cross-aisle coalition
In a strategic play, lawmakers built a rare bipartisan bloc to approve a spending ceiling that trimmed nearly $1 billion in military research. The approach leveraged public concern over defense cost growth while keeping final allocations to the Pentagon, and contrasted with earlier battles such as ABM debates and Eisenhower silver dollar sales.
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House
Pentagon
Eisenhower
Eisenhower College
Seneca Falls
N.Y
Freeman on statistics and federal data in crisis
The Richmond News Leaders longtime editor recalls Dr Douglas Southall Freeman s view that reporters must study statistics He notes Moore s new essays on unemployment statistics and traces how federal data work has declined since Nixon era with briefings halted and leadership changes at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census and related agencies naming concerns and calls for closer scrutiny of government statistics.
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Washington
Douglas Southall Freeman
Richmond News Leader
Freeman
Geoffrey H. Moore
Bureau of Labor Statistics
American Enterprise Institute
U.S
Ewan Clague
Press mustread on unemployment data and credibility
Washington pundit notes that federal statistics on unemployment are frequently misused to score political points. Dr. Moore proposes a severity index tracking jobless numbers and duration, suggesting Nixon’s record may appear stronger when viewed through nonpartisan interpretation, with an emphasis on careful, honest analysis by experts.
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Wisconsin
William Proxmire
Barabba
Edward D. Failor
Social and Economic Statistics Administration
Dr. Moore
Nixon
Moore
Johnson
Kissinger Viewed as Genius but Poor Administrator
Cromley argues President Nixon erred in appointing Henry Kissinger as secretary of State. While Kissinger is praised as a brilliant strategist whose ideas aided the White House, the writer warns his one man approach and disdain for staff make him a weak administrator. The piece notes State Department depth and questions who would run the department amid vacancies.
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Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
White House
China
Russia
State Department
State
Kenneth Rush
Department of Defense
U. Alexis Johnson
William J. Porter
Johnson
Curtis W. Tarr
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Persident
Eisenhower
United States
Crossword Puzzle 36 Universe 3 Transfer 38 The Tragedy
A fragmented crossword puzzle item mentions numbers 36 and 38 with universe and transfer themes titled The Tragedy. The readable bits imply a puzzle or clue list rather than a full article, offering no clear events, people, or dates to anchor a factual summary.
Odessa teacher to receive master's degree in English
Looking back ten years to August 31, 1963 when Odessa elementary instructor Imogene Vaught was set to obtain her master in English at Texas Tech.
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Imogene Vaught
Odessa
Texas Tech
Odessa High adds Bill Holm to social studies faculty
Twenty years ago on August 31, 1953 Odessa High School announced the addition of Bill Holm to its social studies department faculty.
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Bill Holm
Odessa High School
Health officials expect polio danger period to end by Sept seven
Thirty years ago on August 21 1943 local health authorities announced that the danger period from present infantile paralysis cases would pass by September seven.
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