Calm and stability return to Oval Office after Watergate
A year after Nixon’s resignation and the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford assumes the presidency with a steady hand, promising plain talk and restoring trust. The nation endures a turbulent period but steadies as Ford stabilizes government, quelling fear and guiding healing from the 1974 crisis.
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Richard Nixon
Republic
Watergate
Mr. Nixon
Oval Office
Washington, D.C
Main St
U.S.A
Pennsylvania Ave
Alexander Haig
Nixon
White House
Gen. Haig
Gerald Ford
Air Force One
Missouri
Ford
Michigan
Congress
Mayaguez
Photo selecting for Pet of the Week at county humane society
A writer chronicles visiting the Warren County Humane Society to choose one pet for Pet of the Week. She wrestles with guilt over animals overlooked or doomed to sleep, while acknowledging the harsh reality that many remain unwanted and are euthanized.
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Susan Burke
Star
Warren County Humane Society
Reagan Waiting for the Boat as 1980 Run Looms
Ronald Reagan lingers toward a 1980 bid with do or die pressure as August ends. The Citizens for Reagan HQ opens in Washington while advisors urge action and Ford signals campaign momentum across New Hampshire and Florida.
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Nofsiger
Reagan
Sears
Ford
White House
New Hampshire
Florida
Adlai Stevenson and the 1952 Presidential Trail
A compact profile traces Adlai Stevenson’s long 1952 campaign trek through 30 000 miles of travel and 100 speeches from Denver to Los Angeles. It notes his rejection of the nomination in April and July and his eventual acceptance, plus a Labor Day Flint moment and Pulitzer Prize acknowledgment in 1953.
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Washington
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Jack Rabbit
Stevenson
Kefauver
Denver
Kasson
Minn
Cheyenne
Bridgeport
Kansas City
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Bill Gallagher
The
Flint Journal
A Rule of Prayer in Daily Meditation
An old prayer rule blends divine dependence with human action. Pray as if all hinges on God, then rise to work as if all hinges on you. God includes us in answers, seeking our participation to gain power from effort. Prayer is often misread as passive. here it is active and purposeful.
Hardesty joins Clarke County Board of Supervisors
Ten years ago John D. Hardesty assumed office on the Clarke County Board of Supervisors as dry weather lower rainfall curbed crops and gardens. Invitations went to area fruit growers to inspect a contour peach or chard at National Fruit Product Company on Timber Ridge, said to be the largest Ambergem peach plant in the world. Germanium, a rare wartime strategic metal, was discovered near the Capitol in Washington.
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Adlai
Harry Truman
Washington
Ike
Eisenhower
Flint
Mich
G. Mennen Williams
John D. Hardesty
Clarke County Board of Supervisors
National Fruit Product Company
Contour Peach
Timber Ridge
Capitol
Knowledge Check Quiz Questions and Scrambled Answers
A mixed list of seven knowledge questions covering League of Nations albatross ocean Big Black River origin state sapodilla gum olfactory sense def int indict king of Jews after Saul author of Declaration of Independence with an encoded string of scrambled answers and stray characters.
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Russia
League of Nations
Black River
Saul
Roll Call on major votes July 31 and Aug 1 pace recess
Washington area members recorded on key roll calls as House passes S 1849 extending oil price controls to March 1 1976 with 303 117 and HR 8731 extending Wage and Price Stability Council to Sept 30 1977 235 188 Senate backs Turkey arms ban with conditions 47 46 in a routine vote and energy funding debates amid heated exchanges over subsidies and subpoena powers.
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Washington
Congress
HOUSE
Senate
White House
Council On
Thomas Ashley
Ohio
Turkey
Radio Free Europe
U.S
Cyprus
NATO
Harry Byrd
William Scott
Department of Defense
House-Senate
Sen
John Stennis
Dmiss
Sam Nunn
Dga
Defense Department
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Winchester Evening Star
Mr. Ford
By James J. Kilpatrick
Brutus
Ronald Reagan
California
Citizens For Reagan Committee
L Street
N.W
Lyn Nofsiger
John Sears
President Ford Committee
18Th Street
Bo Callaway
Thomas T. Byrd
Lewis H. Ebert
Douglas B. O'Connell
David H. Smith
Eugene P. Miller
Wire
Reed Daily
Winchester
John Rhodes
Ariz
Thomas Downing
Caldwell Butler
Herbert Harris
William Wampler
Joseph Fisher
William Whitehurst
David Satterfield
Robert Daniel
W.C. Daniel
Kenneth Robinson
John Rousselot
R-Cal
Fisher
Downing
Whitehurst
Satterfield
Butler, Robinson, Harris and Wampler
Byrd
Scott
Oak Ridge
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
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