Word: conservationism
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Of taxes he has said, "We can't repeal the income tax totally. It's an evil, but we obviously need major sources of revenue," and this discontent motivates his opposition to spending programs. "Spending cuts should come before tax cuts," he declared this year, while voting against the Youth...
Over the deepening autumnal landscape of the upper Middle West, the northern Rockies and the Far West soared the White House caravan of three sleek 707s (Kennedy's Air Force One, a backup plane and a press plane). Wherever the "Conservation Tour" set down, folks seemed a bit awed...
And so, in Great Falls, Mont., where he visited the white clapboard house of Patrick Mansfield, 88-year-old father of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, and posed for the classic campaign shot with Blackfoot Indians from his honorary tribe (his tribal name: "High Eagle"), the President forsook conservation. He...
"I can arrange for its proper preservation better now than after I'm gone." So saying, Philanthropist Edgar Kaufmann Jr., 53, deeded Frank Lloyd Wright's incomparable "Falling-water," the famous tiered and cantilevered "house over the waterfall" in Bear Run, Pa., to a Pennsylvania conservation agency, along...
Even an old conservationist like Teddy Roosevelt could hardly ask for more. The Manhattan brownstone where he was born and Sagamore Hill, the Long Island home where he died, were given to the U.S. by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The new national monuments are "Theodore Roosevelt as no other tangible...