Governor Thompson’s speech flaws toast public discourse
A Southern Illinoisan column critiques Illinois Governor James R. Thompson for crude language in private remarks and on the stump, contrasting his eloquence with moments of coarse phrasing. It argues a double standard in public vs private speech, urges higher moral conduct, and praises his potential to lead with dignity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Lawrence
Southern Illinoisan
Springfield
James R. Thompson
Washington University
St.Louis
Northwestern
Lyceum de
Capitol
Lincoln
Douglas
Richard M. Nixon
Cairo
Paul Douglas
Ill
Thompson
Jim Thompson
Illinois
Reagan
Adlai Stevenson
Phil Rock
John C Gardner Publisher for Southern Illinoisan
John C Gardner is noted as the publisher for the Southern Illinoisan a daily Lee Enterprises newspaper.
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Lee Enterprises
John C. Gardner
Flag Day tribute links stripes to press liberty and two landmark cases
Today marks the 204th anniversary of the Stars and Stripes with a note on Flag Day nine decades after the Pentagon Papers dispute and the Near case. The piece honors the flag, the Saturday Press, Jay M Near, and the New York Times as symbols defending First Amendment freedoms against government overreach.
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Rome
Senate
Minneapolis
Saturday Press
America
New York Times
Minnesota
Jay M. Near
Supreme Court
Minnesota Rag
Fred W. Friendly
Sam Shapiro
Sam
Irving
The
du Pont Co
Two anniversaries shape press freedom in America
Fifty years after Near v Minnesota and a decade since the Pentagon Papers, Anthony Lewis argues the cases were not just wins for the press but a test of national governance. The piece recalls Brandeis’s praise for courageous editors and notes ongoing tensions as officials invoke national security to curb disclosures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentagon Papers
Times
America
Vietnam
Supreme Court
Charles Evans Hughes
Louis Brandeis
Saturday Press
New York Times
Pentagon
United States
Minnesota
Jay M. Near
The Party's Over in Illinois Politics
A decade after Dan Walker and Jim Thompson rose with media politics, Illinois faces economic strain and a vanishing willingness of government to aid. Kerner and Ogilvie set a reforming tone that Walker and Thompson exploited, but the party ends as Reagan era shifts power. Governors Ogilvie and Kerner left a legacy of taxation and modernization amid a costly transportation crisis.
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Robert D. Reid
David Broder
Washington Post
Broder
Illinois
Richard Olgivie
Dan Walker
Paul Simon
Ogilvie
U.S
James Thompson
Otto Kerner
Walker, Thompson
Jane Byrne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kerner
Walker
Thompson
Cook County
Daley
Sam Shapiro
Kerner and
Montgomery Ward
Pbusic
Chicago
Simon
Diey
Jim Thompson
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Daniel Walker
Victor deGrazia
Scott
Southern
Peter W. Selkowe
Aeee
Near
U.S. Supreme Court
Anthony Lewis
William B. Macomber
Floyd Abrams
Alexander Bickel
Macomber
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
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