Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...omitted the one Republican who has a chance of beating Johnson-Mark Hatfield of Oregon. Unlike such me-too supporters of the war as Romney, Rockefeller, Reagan and Nixon, Hatfield offers a real choice-he wants to end the war by stopping the bombing and seeking peace. The ticket is Hatfield-Lindsay. But it could never get the nomination from the present conservative G.O.P. organization...
Exhausting All Avenues. After refusing a plea for executive clemency, Reagan said: "Here was a case in which every legal avenue had been tried-the U.S. Supreme Court twice, the California Supreme Court twice." Moreover, his predecessor, Governor Edmund Brown, had rejected clemency. Concluded Reagan: "The law is the law, and it must be upheld...
Outside San Quentin's "smokehouse"-so named because smoke curls from the gas chamber's chimney when a man is put to death-almost 500 opponents of capital punishment conducted a demonstration. Other groups picketed Governor Ronald Reagan's office and home. At the request of California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, several churches tolled their bells at the hour of Mitchell's execution "in penitence for our part in this judicial and legalized murder." But C. Julian Bartlett, the dean of Myers' own Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, declined the request...
California has another execution scheduled for this week and 59 other men in its death row. "We are treating each one of these cases on its own mer its," says Governor Reagan. "Certainly, if clemency is indicated, no one would be happier than I would if I were able to recommend...
...first ball at the Washington Senators' opening game this week-a fact that could not really displease the Senators, who have lost three straight openers with Johnson and Humphrey on the hill. For their home opener, the luckier California Angels acquired the services of Governor Ronald Reagan, a pitcher with experience: he once played the part of Grover Cleveland Alexander in a movie called The Winning Team...