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...January after taking the oath of office as President. Before the October antiwar Moratorium, he insisted that "under no circumstances" would he be affected by it. Yet now he has, in effect, abandoned his above-the-battle position. Nixon took the field against his critics in his Nov. 3 plea to "the silent majority" for backing of his Viet Nam policy, and last week he ordered Vice President Spiro.Agnew into the fray to mount an extraordinary-and sometimes alarming-assault on network television's handling of the news (see following story...
...about personal freedom," soberly explains Director Tom O'Horgan, a chichi con artist from off-off-Broadway. "It's about the responsibility of freedom." Futi might also just as well be a propaganda film for the anti-Anti-Vivisection Society, a moving plea for the tolerance of sodomists, or a fearless indictment of soil erosion. It makes no difference, and neither, really, does the movie. Based on Rochelle Owens' play and enacted by a group of wildly undisciplined shock troops who call themselves the La Mama Repertory Troupe,* Futz is merely a piece of fraudulent and fearsomely...
...speech, Nixon abandoned the politics of conciliation, raising his voice to deliver a powerful, simplistic appeal, a personal plea to "the great silent majority" to back his Viet Nam policies and give him more time to carry out his chosen course. Three Presidents before him, said Nixon, had recognized the stakes in Viet Nam, and he did not intend to preside over a U.S. defeat. What he had done, he explained, was to begin "a pursuit for peace on many fronts"-including private proposals for a settlement that he initiated even before taking office, and a personal letter sent...
...they decided to "pass the buck" to their neighbor down the street who had recently moved to the White House. The New York Times reported that a plea was made to the new Administration "to set everything straight by taking over full financial responsibility for welfare, setting aside a portion of Federal tax revenues to be given to cities and states on an unrestricted basis to help them pay for schools, police and fire protection, garbage collection and other services." The story was simple: Here comes John. Here comes Nelson. See Dick...
...over individual budget items in OEO Legal Services programs. Previously, a governor could veto the appropriation for an entire program in his state-but the OEO Director could override his veto.* "This is a disastrous piece of legislation," protested Alfred Feinberg, an OEO lawyer who heads an association called PLEA (Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy). "If ultimately passed by the House, it will destroy OEO Legal Services...