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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuesday Lunch Group that Abrams sat in on last week; the Thursday Group, including C.I.A. Boss Helms, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Wheeler, Nitze, and several others who meet regularly in Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach's office; and the Eleven O'Clock Group, mostly lower-level officials assigned to draft the policymakers' decisions. Among all these officials, few supported the bombing of the North up to the end. The swing man, inclined first one way, then the other, was Lyndon B. Johnson...
...editorial questioning Spiro Agnew's ethics, he not only seemed to protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than it would otherwise have had (the editorial appeared originally on a Saturday, when circulation is low, and editorial page readership is even lower). In Syracuse, on the other hand, Nixon remained very much in control of himself and the situation when he encountered the best-organized heckling he has yet seen on the road. Taking a cue from Ed Muskie, he let his opponents have their say but got the last word...
...three decades in Washington, the community has been transformed from a decaying, unpaved cow town into a humming tourist mecca. As Congressman, Senator, Vice President and President, Johnson City's native son has showered largesse on his home hill country. First, in New Deal days, came the Lower Colorado River Authority, whose dams harnessed and tamed waters that had ravaged the countryside. Then he won for Johnson City the Pedernales Co-Op, which today provides power from the authority's steam plants to some 18,500 customers in seven counties. Lately there has been more: a handsome...
...have supported moves throughout my public career to lower the voting age to 18. The 18-year-old vote will continue to be a priority item of a Humphrey-Muskie Administration...
...that contest, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks appealed to the lower middle class Irish backlash sentiment. The last poll before that election revealed an unusually high undecided vote of 25 per cent. Since White held a two to one lead, the undecided should have split two to one for him, but Mrs. Hicks captured 23 per cent of this vote to 2 per cent for White...