Word: reed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practically everybody in Congress had hustled home to the hustings for a few speeches before Election Day. Staying behind in Washington, however, was an indefatigable pair: Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, 69, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 70, who went on orating in their pajamas at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Russell was in for a routine physical, Dirksen for an operation to remove the surgical pins from the hip he fractured last spring. It looked as if they were getting set for a hot debate on Medicare...
...Reed assured his audience that "the whole process of non-cooperation really is not that frightening...
...Although Reed anticipates a sentence of up to three years, he has decided not to hire a lawyer, but to represent himself at the trial. "With the violations I've piled up," he added, "they could put me away indefinitely...
...Reed faces trial Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. in the old Federal Building for refusing to obey induction orders and report for his physical...
...Reed left Harvard in February, after burning his draft card, and went to Germany, "unwilling to face up to the confrontation between the government and my principles," he said. There he was convinced that it was his duty to "return and provide an example to all those who object to the aggressive war in Vietnam...