McClellan Wins Re election To United States Senate
Arkansas Senator John J. McClellan secures re election after a runoff campaign. The veteran Democrat, known for leading the McClellan committee, earns broad national respect for his tenure and conduct. The piece notes foes from a younger challenger and praises his long service and dedication.
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John J. McClellan
Senate
Arkansas
United States
McClellan
Democratic Party
Brober
United States Senate
Grass Roots Opinions From Over The Nation
A collection of reader letters praising decency and civic virtue while critiquing politics and media. Citizens from Wisconsin Texas Florida California North Dakota Oregon Mississippi Missuary offer opinions on freedom, government, and unemployment amid a national mood of renewed common sense.
McGovern plan costs debated in California debate
Jeffrey Hart notes that McGovern redistribution would impose drastic middle class tax increases with estimates ranging from 27 to 51 billion dollars. Tom Wicker counters with a New York Times framing that cost figures are inflated by annualization and additional McGovern proposals are listed.
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Jeffrey Hart
New York
Sen. McGovern
California
Hubert Humphrey
McGovern
Senate Finance Committee
Tom Wicker
New York Times
National Review
Wicker
Old Scribe Dies Assignment in Utopia
Casey, a broken down reporter in Miami, dies at his pool game and finds himself in a purgatorial newsroom. The Managing Editor explains he must face a trial assignment in the underworld paper, the Purgatory Independent Mirror, while the upstairs real paper boasts prosperity.
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Utopia
John Keasler
Miami
Fla
Casey
City Desk
City Hall
Lulu
M.E
Remington
S.I. Newhouse
Heaven
Utopia Cosmic News
Purgatory Independent Mirror
Hearst
Guardian Angel beat offers Casey a lifetime hazard
A streetwise journalist Casey accepts a Guardian Angel assignment from the M.E. and Smitty. The doomed mission is to shadow a reckless young reporter whose life spirals with women trouble gambling and ambition, culminating in a fate to die of old age.
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Casey
Buster
Smitty
Earth
Springfield
Courier-Bugle
Guardian
Lessee
Hanoi signals possible resumption of talks with Kissinger
Hanoi's chief negotiator Le Duc Tho hints at secret talks with Henry Kissinger, boosting hope for a peace deal as the North Vietnamese battlefield prospects wobble, and amid shifts in Moscow and Beijing. The piece notes Kissinger’s cautious view and past secret efforts, plus domestic antiwar pressures in the United States.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Hanoi
Paris
le Duc Tho
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Nguyen Giap
Russia
Moscow
Peking
China
America
U.S
Richard Nixon
George McGovern
Magna Carta Signed At Runnymede Shaped Liberty
Summary of Today in History noting key events on June 15 across centuries. King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215 granting barons greater liberty. Franklin demonstrated lightning electricity in 1752. Washington took command in 1775. Arkansas statehood came in 1836. The General Slocum disaster occurred in 1904. Hoover nomination in 1928.
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Runnymede
England
John
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
George Washington
Continental Army
Arkansas
General Slocum
New York
Manhattan Island
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Eee
France
Impeach the President debated in House
A May 10 resolution led by John Conyers Jr. seeks to impeach the President. A later Times ad, funded for about $18,000, frames the issue as a test of constitutional restraints. The piece questions the moment and discusses impeachment as a constitutional check versus political theater.
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James J. Kilpatrick
House Democrats
Michigan
John Conyers Jr
United States
New York Times
The
Times
Congress
House
Impeachment A Failing Weapon In U S Government
The essay argues impeachment has produced few convictions since Ritter in 1936. It cites honest officers, easier removals by resignation or dismissal, and constitutional ambiguity over high crimes. It questions defining good behavior for judges and asks what effective weapon could replace impeachment.
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House
Senate
Halsted L. Ritter
United States
Nixon
Cambodia
George Norris
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