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...point man in Nixon's crusade to gut the First Ammendment, laying the rhetorical framework for police style measures in areas such as confidentiality of sources, gag orders and prior restraint. These attacks on free speech also included extensive and illegal intimidation of the press; they were intended to cow the mass media into becoming an unquestioning purveryor of Nixon's propaganda...
Harmilda, according to the town's official written history, was built by two brothers named Jones in 1966, "when Harvard had the reputation of being the Milk Center of the World." The cow is named for the Harvard Milk Day Celebration, an annual festival held since 1942 to "salute the dairy farmers and the belief in our community," the history notes...
Indeed, the cohesion of this community--most of whose members are Catholic, German Protestant or Baptist--is evident in its epic defense of its beloved cow...
Three years later, a compromise was reached. The cow now sits on a stone pedastal in nearby Five Point Park...
Kerry, too, forays into independent policy decisions, seeking to restructure the Social Security Trust Fund--a sacred cow of both parties...