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Campaign 1964

September 30, 1964 – Promising The Moon In 1964 – Campaign For The White House

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September 17, 1991 – Defusing The Middle-East Flap – Inciting The Media Hype –

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August 11-17, 1965 – Five Nights In Watts – Trouble Comin’ Every Day

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Dean Rusk

July 30, 1967 – Dean Rusk – Pushing An Unpopular Cause, Making An Unconvincing Case – The Vietnam War

Dean Rusk On Face The Nation – July 30, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the War in Vietnam dragged on, and opposition to it grew louder and louder, the justification for it grew more intense from the White…

Riots

July 29, 1967 – Riots Across America – Riots In The Streets Of Wuhan – Vietcong Attacks In Saigon

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July 21, 1963 – George Wallace: ‘Some Of My Best Friends Are Negroes’ –

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Adlai Stevenson

July 19, 1965 – Farewell To Adlai – Vietnam Escalates

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Outside the convention

July 15, 1964 – GOP Convention – View From The Cow Palace: Sliding Off The Rails.

News for this day, at least in the U.S., had primarily to do with the Republican Convention and the selection of Barry Goldwater as Presidential Candidate. Long thought to be the turning point in the Republican Party, it actually began…

The Congo

July 12, 1960 – The Congo: In Another World . . .Madness. – A Convention Gets Underway.

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Middle East

June 3, 1967 – Cities On Edge: Preview Of A Long, Hot Summer – Middle-East On The Brink – Vietnam With Numbing Regularity.

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