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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Secretary. At midweek, as word began to circulate that the nomination might be off again, Finch was at home relaxing when the phone rang. It was a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, who asked him what he would do if Knowles was rejected by Nixon. "He'd have to find another Secretary," Finch was quoted as saying. (He subsequently denied making the remark; still later he admitted having said it, but insisted that he had not really meant it as a serious statement...
...wags to the conclusion that the White House has bet ter relations with Senators on the field than with Senators on the Hill. Bob Short, owner of the Senators, marvels that Nixon "knows more about baseball than I do. I was amazed to hear him say he'd been following the Senators on his trip to Midway." Nixon and David Eisenhower attend games together and frequently talk baseball. One re cent evening, the duo sped out to the stadium, Nixon rushing away from a press conference, David forsaking his bride...
...House Internal Security (formerly the Un-American Activities) Committee, headed by Rep. Richard H. Ichord (D.-Mo.), has spent several weeks holding hearings at such campuses as George Washington and Kent State to investigate the activities of the militant students organizations on those campuses...
...House's Special Subcommittee on Education, chaired by Rep. Edith Green (D.-Ore), continued hearings it began last fall on campus disturbances. Most of the testimony before the Green Committee came from leading college administrators and faculty, including Harvard's President Pusey, and Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
...withdrawing the ordinance he proposed a month ago, which would have established a fine of at least $25 for amplification of sound disturbing the public peace, Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney commented, "Enforcement [of existing laws...