White House staff swell under Nixon era growth
Civil Service reports show White House executive office staff rising from 1 748 to 3 562 since January 1969 with 1 000 added in a 12 month span amid a 5 percent federal cutback. Bookkeeping changes cited. OMB and other offices expanded too. Nixon urges substantial cuts across government, especially in the White House, as staff totals exceed 3 500 and reach about 5 800 if OEO included.
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White House
Executive Office
Henry Kissinger
National Security Council
John Ehrlichman
Domestic Council
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Office of Science and Technology
Council On Environmental Quality
Council of Economic Advisers
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Apollo 17s precise burn steadies for lunar orbit
Apollo 17 astronauts Cerna n Evans and Schmitt fired the command ship Amer ica for two seconds to fine tune their course toward lunar orbit. Mission Control reported the burn went as planned and the craft moved toward the moon at 2,766 mph before Earth's gravity slowed it again.
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Space Center
Houston
Moon
Mission Control
America
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H. Schmitt
Earth
Lunar
Space
Schmitt
Apollo 17
Doctors Wary of Truman's Heart
KANSAS CITY AP report details former President Harry S Truman's critical heart condition at Research Hospital and Medical Center. Updates note general cardiac weakness, stability with extreme weakness, pulmonary improvement, and nasogastric feeding after failed oral intake. Mrs Bess Truman and Margaret Truman Daniel arrived. Dr. Wallace Graham said consciousness is not the focus at this time.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research Hospital
Wallace Graham
Graham
Truman
Bess
Margaret Truman Daniel
Dreves
Life Magazine to Call It Quits
New York AP Life magazine will discontinue publication with the Dec 29 issue Time Inc announced. The 36 year old weekly famed for news photos ends amid continuing losses and projections of heavy deficits into 1974. About 250 to 300 staff gathered for a closed meeting at the Time-Life Building before the decision. Look ceased in 1971 blaming rising costs.
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New York
Life Magazine
Time, Inc
Henry Luce
Life
Time-Life
Sixth Avenue
50Th Street
Look
Campaign expenses released for local November races
Local candidates in the November 7 general election filed campaign expenditures totaling 2690.53 with all deadlines met. The largest item was 564.62 by the Campaign Committee for Lewis Ashcraft, the Republican Sheriff winner. other totals include Seyler 386.82, Richardson 398.15, and Keith Coffman 201.81 among several races with varying spend.
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Lewis Ashcraft
Ashcraft
Edward B. Seyler
Bruce Spears
Lewis D. Ashcraft
James A. Richardson
Eldon J. Richardson
Donald White
Joe Ferns
Leroy Wasmund
A. E. Coffman
Victor E. Warren
Sherrie A. Capper
Dorothy Thomson
Robert L. Pinet
Ruby Sanford
B52s Pressure North Vietnam With Saturation Bombing
U S B52 bombers continued heavy saturation bombing near the DMZ dropping about 1 000 tons in 18 hours amid a two day surge. Bombing concentrated around Ben Quang five miles south and near Quang Tri City with missions across North and South Vietnam. Ground clashes left 244 enemy and 16 government troops killed while a helicopter was shot down but recovered. The Viet Cong urged expansion of areas under control in a radio broadcast locking in the day's war narrative.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Ben Quang
Quang Tri City
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
U.S. Command
Viet Cong
Radio Liberation
Nixon to keep Kleindienst with broad Justice shakeup
President Nixon announced a second term at Camp David with Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst retained while signaling major changes in Justice Department leadership. He named Robert H. Bork to replace Griswold as Solicitor General and indicated removals in Indian affairs and interior posts. Nixon also planned Cabinet moves including a potential CIA director and new EPA/CIA figures amid talks with top advisers and Kissinger. The report notes unemployment drop to 5.2 percent and a county forecast of cloudy, cold conditions with light snow chances.
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Nixon
Atty
Richard Kleindienst
Justice Department
White House
Louis R. Bruce
Harrison Loesch
Henry Kissinger
California Oil ‘Company
Claude S. Brinegar
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Italy
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Richard Helms
Camp David
Economic
Treasury
George Shultz
Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Herbert Stein
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Caspar Weinberger
Office of Management and Budget
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Kissinger Tho Meet in Fifth Paris Peace Talks
In Paris Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho held the fifth session of their secret Vietnam peace talks this week at a Paris villa owned by an American jeweler. Kissinger also met French leader Pompidou, who acts as an informal intermediary, as the pair kept a news blackout.
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Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Nixon
Kissinger
Georges Pompidou
Pompidou
Tho
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