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...Senate will begin debate this afternoon on a proposal of Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) to extend special tax credits to parents with children in college...
...volunteers who have been opening and organizing her 700,000 letters and telegrams of condolence. And that same day, still another bit of Kennediana came to light. On the mantel of the presidential bedroom in the White House there has long been a carved inscription: "In this room Abraham Lincoln slept during his occupancy of the White House as President of the United States. March 4, 1861-April 13, 1865." Now there is another inscription just below: "In this room lived John Fitzgerald Kennedy with his wife Jacqueline during the two years, ten months and two days he was President...
...Abraham Lincoln...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, 185 votes; Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, 166; U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, 75; New York City Mayor Robert Wagner, 47; Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, 43; California's Governor Pat Brown, 37; Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, 28; Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, 24; Assistant Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 21; and Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington...
...Response. The Negroes had created their crisis-and Connor had made it a success. "The civil rights movement," said President Kennedy in a meeting later with King, "owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln." That was at best an oversimplification; nevertheless, because of Connor, the riots seared the front pages of the world press, outraged millions of people. Everywhere, King's presence, in the pulpit or at rallies, was demanded. But while he preached nonviolence, violence spread. "Freedom Walker" William Moore was shot and killed in Alabama. Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated...