President vetoes measure to up federal benefits
President Johnson vetoed a 90 million dollar increase in government employee insurance benefits, calling it inflationary and contrary to restraint. The veto followed House Ways and Means Committee hearings on inflation controls including suspending tax credits and accelerated depreciation. GOP members planned to press Budget Director Schultze on administration budget cuts as Johnson announced the veto during a hastily convened session.
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Johnson
House
Ways and Means Committee
Thomas B. Cure Ts
ReMo
GOP
Charles L. Schultze
Schultze
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Secretary of Commerce
John T. Connor
Congress
Silent Movie Buff Operates A Theater
Hollywood AP story profiles John Hampton who runs a 200 seat silent cinema on Fairfax Avenue and celebrates nearly 25 years of presenting silents. He notes the scarcity of prints, nostalgia for stars like Valentino Chaplin Lloyd Pickford Fairbanks Bow White, and his shared devotion with his wife Dorothy to keep silent film alive each night except Sunday.
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Hollywood
John Hampton
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Fairfax Avenue
Oklahoma
Los Angeles
Dorothy
Valentino
Chaplin
Lloyd, Pickford
Fairbanks
Clara Bow
Pearl White
Wilson Eyes Salisbury Visit to Persuade Rhodesia Rebel Leader
London reports Prime Minister Harold Wilson plans to send a senior official to Salisbury to urge Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to end the 10 month rebellion. The plan, tied to a broader Commonwealth effort, seeks sanctions and a pathway to black majority rule with interim governance and a written constitution.
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Harold Wilson
Salisbury
Commonwealth
Herbert Bowden
Smith
Wilson
U.N
Rhodesia
Humphrey Gibbs
Today In History Highlights From 1814 1788 1851
Today in history notes key events and figures across years 1814 1788 1851 1940 1943 1945 and later. It mentions Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner aboard a British ship and other presidential and diplomatic milestones. It also recalls Adlai Stevenson speech and Dean Rusk and Andrei Grose myko at the UN.
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Chesapeake Bay
Francis Scott Key
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Congress
New York
Walter Reed
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jesse Jones
Chiang Kaie Shek
China
Harry S. Truman
Adlai Steevenson
Eisenhower
Kennedy
U.S
Dean Rusk
Andrei Grosemyko
U.N. General Assembly
Berlin
South Viet Nam
Johnson
Escaped Pilot Dieter Dengler Returns to Health in San Diego
Navy flier Dieter Dengler, 26, who escaped North Vietnamese captivity after his plane was shot down last February, has weekend and evening liberties from the naval hospital in San Diego. He trekked 23 days through the jungle during captivity and witnessed the recap ture and beheading of another escapee, an Air Force pilot, before being admitted July 27.
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Dieter Dengler
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Naval Hospital
Dengler
Air Force
Bob Hope Donates Land for Palm Desert Medical Center
Comedian Bob Hope and his wife donated an 80 acre site for a proposed 5.5 million Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert California. Former President Eisenhower and his wife serve as honorary chairman and vice chairman. Groundbreaking is set for early next year. The center will have 380 beds and research facilities for heart and lung diseases.
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Bob Hope
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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