Common touch remains from Nixon tax release
Vice President Ford urged Americans to feel better after Nixon released his tax records. A taxi driver, tax lawyer, stockbroker, waiter Plato, and others react with humor and pride, noting Nixon paid similar taxes to average earners and highlighting perceived loopholes and charitable deductions.
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Art Buchwald
Washington
Gerald Ford
Meet the Press
Nixon
Ford
K St
United States
Herringbone
IRS
Plato
Joint
Congressional Committee On Taxation
Congress
Doc Dalinsky
America
Diaries of Drew Pearson Reveal Early Nixon Offstage Tactics
Washington column recalls unpublished Pearson diaries edited by Tyler Abell. Entries discuss Nixon oil money links, Riggs loan details, Truman talks on Middle East, Feisal tensions, and early FBI inquiries, showing a prewarner view of Cold War era politics and media scrutiny.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Drew Pearson
Richard Nixon
Middle East
Prince Feisal
United States
Drew
Tyler Abell
Rayburn
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Nixon
Riggs
National Bank
Harry Truman
Independence
Israel
Truman
FBI's Invincible Image Built with Public Backing
In notes from 1953 Drew recalls how Attorney General Homer Cummings urged strengthening the FBI to deter kidnapping. Cummings advised hiring a top public relations man, leading Henry Suydam to guide Hollywood and radio to bolster belief in an invincible FBI.
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FBI
J. Edgar
Hoover
Germany
Russia
Drew
Homer Cummings
Bob Allen
Underworld
Cummings
Henry Suydam
Henry
Hollywood
Surplus Santa Fe funds raised concern over appraisal policy
Fred Buckles reports on a suspended state practice letting landowners pick appraisers to value property for highway right of way. Disparities in appraisals for a Santa Fe parcel raised questions of favoritism and potential dishonesty, though the policy was revoked in November.
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Santa Fe
Fred Buckles
State Highway Department
SHD
Garth Young
St. Michael’s Drive
Highway Commission
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Seek Reconciliation in Italy
The famous couple faces a turbulent marriage with a second attempt at reconciliation. Taylor, 41, after ovarian cyst surgery, flies with Burton in a private jet to recuperate near Naples. The tale highlights the couple's high profile, travel aboard their yacht era, and ongoing divorce rumors.
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Italy
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Ms. Taylor
California
Mediterranean
Bay of Naples
Roswell News Briefs 1948 Chevron Station Opens
W H Clemmons and T T Stroup announce a Chevron Service Station at 501 N Main. Mrs Mattie Griffith ousted as auto license distributor says it is political to install a party ally. Roswell High Coyotes beat Artesia 49 27. Minor injuries after rural intersection crash. Two hundred twenty five highway deaths year to date in NM. President Truman seeks cabinet pay rise. Roswell drought ends with 0.02 inch rain. Overnight low 46.
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W. H. Clemmons
T. T. Stroup
Chevron
N. Main
Mattie M. Griffith
Democratic
Roswell High Coyotes
Artesia
Marshall B
Charles Brice
New Mexico Supreme Court
Morgan Nelson
East Grand Plains
New Mexico
Lee Walker
Dexter
Ford
Kaiser
Truman
Congress
Roswell
On This Date in History December 13 1973
Key events and figures tied to December 13 include Drake’s circumnavigation start in 1577, a 1781 day of thanksgiving for American victory, Marye's Heights Civil War clash in 1862, Rhine crossing in 1918, a 1944 Nashville tragedy, and Eisenhower’s 1966 health update.
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Associated Press
Francis Drake
United States
Madrid
Marye
Fredericksburg
Coblenz
Germany
U.S
Nashville
Politicians named own appraisers in land deals at Santa Fe
In Santa Fe the State Highway Department allowed landowners to choose appraisers. Public figures such as Richard Montoya and Garrett Quintana owned land taken for a 1.47 mile road project. Appraisals ranged from 16 800 to 22 900 dollars. litigation and negotiations continue with a condemnation suit filed in 1972 and a later policy repeal.
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Public Service Commission
Richard Montoya
Santa Fe
Garrett Quintana
Lawrence T. Abraham
Montoya
Quintana
Highway Department
St Michael's Drive
Rodeo Road
Jurgensen Construction Co
SHD
Atty. E. E. Chavez
Edwin L. Felter
St. Michael's Drive
Chavez
Thomas G. Gillentine
D. A. Lomax Jr
Albuquerque
P.E. Conradt
Heinz Hippauf
New Mexico
Toney
Washington
U. S
Joseph M. Montoya
Santa Fe County
Abraham
Federal Comptroller of Currency
Joseph M. Montoya II
Little Joe
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Suez
Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Charles Malik
Feisal
Malik
George Wadsworth
the Waldorf
Vietnam
Nathan Twining
Air Force
Indochina
White House
Admiral
National Security Council
Maurice Taylor
Charles Lyons
Taylor
Small Society
Brickman
Vincennes, Incl
Valley Advance
Rover
Zetize, Mensch
Beir
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cambodia
John Milton
State Capitol
Lomax
Quintana-Montoya
Road Department
Young
Anaya
Toney Anaya
Burce King
Mike Anaya
Torrance County
Anaya Brothers
Edmund H. Kase II
Federal Place
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