Phone bills and political plots in 1972 elections
Washington outlines a conspiracy narrative claiming Democrats cannot pay a $1,933,000.25 phone bill to fund their convention in Miami. The tale links public campaign financing, GOP strategy, and a fictional telecom stranglehold to prevent a Democratic nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Buchwald
Washington
Miami
Muskie
McGovern
Jackson
Teddy Kennedy
Nixon
United States
Day care bill showdown wires crossed in Nixon era push
Three years of bipartisan work sought to fund day care for poor children of working mothers. Key figures include Mondale Brademas Reid and Nixon aide Ehrlichman. A late tug over funding through states sparked a dramatic conferees’ clash and Quie’s stiff stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
John Brademas
D-Ind
Ogden Reid
R-N.y
Reid
Elliot Richardson
White House
John Ehrlichman
Jacob Javits
Richardson
New York
Senate House
Elliot
Javits
Albert Quie
R-Minn
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Quie
John Dellenback
R-Ore
William Steiger
R-Wis
Carl Perkins
D-Ky
Mondale
Nelson
Nixon backs park lands in Legacy of Parks drive
The House passed the day care bill 210 186 amid shifts as Elliot Richardson navigates party lines and a Minnesota farmer style reading prompts caution. Nixon extends park access by opening over 17000 acres of federal land to public use under the Legacy of Parks program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quie
Minnesota
Richardson
Reid
Javits
Elliot
Nelson
House
White House
Nixon
Beach land battle ends in California park lease
President proposes inventory of federal land for public parks facing Marine Corps opposition. A White House review board mediates between GSA and departments over essential land, notably Camp Pendleton seven mile beach. Compromise lets California lease Navy land for park use. In Pueblo a hospital bank bag theft ends with incineration of loot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
San Clemente
General Services Administration
White House
GSA
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Marine Corps
Washington
Sam Stratton
D-N.y
House
Armed Services Subcommittee
State of California
Navy
Roswell area urges fair share of New Mexico highway funds
Roswell Chamber urges Ken Towle and the New Mexico Highway Commission to redirect funds to Chaves County and southeast District 2. They note low five year spending totals in Chaves and call for faster Second Street resurfacing and attention to U.S. 380 east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell
New Mexico
Chaves County
Ken Towle
West Second Street
Eddy County
Lea County
Towle
Second Street
U.S. 380
Hondo and
Ruidoso
Lincoln County
Highway Commission
West Second
Highway Committee
Robert Armijo
Las Vegas
Alfred Schwartzman
Albuquerque
Robert Martin
Silver City
Today in History December 12 1971 snapshot
The record notes historic events tied to December 12. Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand in 1642. John Jay born in 1745 in New York City. Beethoven paid 19 cents for his first music lesson in Vienna in 1792 at age 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Abel Tasman
New Zealand
United States
John Jay
New York City
Vienna
Ludwig von Beethoven
Franz Joseph Haydn
Highway union bid eyed for state highway staff
International Union of Operating Engineers Local 953 says about 1,700 eligible highway department workers could form a bargaining unit. A statewide unit may be certified by the State Personnel Board at a Dec. 29-30 meeting, with an election if approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE — International Union of Operating Engineers Local 953
Highway Department
State Personnel Board
M.G. Burgess
The
Operating Engineers Local
Burgess
Operating Engineers Union
Leo Padilla
Richard Wood
George Yates
Albuquerque
John Moree
Rube Hampton
el Paso
Bob Dossett
Farmington
Yates
Personnel Board
Afl-Cio
Lowell G
Stretch) Boles
Highway Commission
New Mexico Government Employes Association
Michael Pulice
SHD
Western Association of Government Employes
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Miami Beach
By Ace Reid
By Jack Anderson
Small Society
Land Released
Brickman
Dad 2
State Capitol
Highway Agency
By Fred Buckles
Highway
Union
Department
R.H. Longacre
Roland Kool
Raymond Howell
Richard Shaffer
American Federation of State
District 3
Bernalillo
Valencia
McKinley
Sandoval
Charles Spath
New State
Spath
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