Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largely rural Indiana district, Representative Lee Hamilton heard a Columbus storekeeper puzzle over the war: "I just don't know; people are more disturbed and confused than I have ever seen them." Some of Hamilton's constituents argued that the U.S. should attack North Viet Nam with nu clear weapons, but generally the mood was moderate...
...mood they encountered in their districts scattered across the U.S. was one of restiveness and frustration tempered by a cautious disposition to wait and see. A new sympathy for President Johnson's burdens was widely evident. Concerning the war, as Connecticut Representative Donald J. Irwin observed after visiting his Fourth Congressional District, "it seems that the doves have become more dovish and the hawks have become more hawkish in the last few weeks." Adds Irwin, a supporter of current U.S. policy: "I've found very little voter sentiment in favor of pulling out of Viet...
...Without Honor. Philadelphia Congressman William Green, at 29 youngest member of the House and youngest political boss in the U.S., walked through his Fifth District to sample opinion among its many ethnic groups. Green, whose father, the late Representative Bill Green, ran the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee before him, said he found "a hunger for peace in Viet Nam." Yet virtually none of his constituents favored U.S. withdrawal, and many complained that Johnson had not acted firmly enough in seeking return of the Pueblo...
With votes from 357 of 358 precincts in the Brooklyn district, the vote was Podell 29,982, Dubin 23,474, Republican Gerald L. Held 3935, and Conservative Michael T. Anjello...
...idea worked so well that newspapers in 28 U.S. cities are now operating under some form of the plan, and others are considering it. Or at least they were. In Tucson, Ariz., Federal District Court Judge James A. Walsh has just called a halt to such newspaper combinations by ordering a complete divorce of mutual ownership, advertising, and circulation departments between the city's morning and afternoon papers...