Category Nixon

Unemployment

Unemployment And The War That Won’t Go Away – January 11, 1975

A little help from our friends: Become a Patron! – News for Week Ending January 11, 1975 – The plate was fairly overflowing with news and crises, this week ending January 11th in 1975. Starting with news of the continuing…

Nixon

Nixon And The Milk Fund – Drilling In Shale And Wounded Knee – January 8, 1974

News for January 8, 1974 News on this January 8th in 1974 continued with goings-on at The White House. Watergate was not going to go away, much to the Nixon Administration’s wishes it would. The White House did issue a…

Nixon: ‘I Am Not A Crook’ – And The Energy Crisis – November 24, 1973

– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – November 24, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – No shortage of Big Ticket crises this week, the one ending on this day in 1973. There was Watergate and the seemingly endless…

Election '62

Election ’62: Mid-Term Postmortem – November 7, 1962

– Lowell Thomas And The News – Nov. 7, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This is the week for election postmortems, it seems. This day, November 7th, was a day-after in the 1962 Mid-term election cycle. Not as…

The Moscow Fair – September 13, 1959

– The Moscow Fair – September 13, 1959 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Before the infamous U-2 incident (the plane, not the band . . .for you who may not know), there was a decided thaw…

‘I Have Never Been A Quitter’ – Nixon Resigns – August 8, 1974

– News Reports and Nixon Resignation Address – August 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.- Forty-nine years ago today, everything stopped and all eyes were on Washington. After days and weeks of speculation and the virtual tornado of rumors…