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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election really was routine. The post automatically goes to the vice chairman, and alternates each year between a Republican and a Democrat. Last year the five-Governor Republican caucus chose Evans for a fundamental political reason that transcended all questions of race, creed, religion or national origin. Evans faced a tough re-election campaign in the troubled Virgins, and gaining the vice chairmanship boosted his chances...
Saddened Man. Whatever the origin of the resignation rumor, it quickly developed a momentum of its own, building up a drumbeat of pressure on Agnew beyond the immediate exigencies of his situation. When Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter phoned Agnew to encourage his old friend, he found himself talking to a weary and saddened man. Reported Carter: "He said that he and his family were under tremendous pressure and that he felt like he was fighting a division with a platoon...
Kissinger, who with his German-Jewish family fled the Nazi regime in 1938, responded by noting: "There is no country in the world where it is conceivable that a man of my origin could be standing here next to the President of the United States. And if my origin can contribute anything to the formulation of our policy, it is that at an early age I have seen what can happen to a society that is based on hatred and strength and distrust... America has never been true to itself unless it meant something beyond itself. As we work...
...people's lawyers had their origin in the labor movement and in pacifism. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the most venerable rights organization in the U.S., evolved from a group of lawyers who defended pacificsts during the First World War. After the War, ACLU turned its attention to the emergent labor unions, and then to the New Deal reformers. By the next world war, it moved towards the right. After the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-agression pact, ACLU banned Communists from its staff, thus splitting its ranks and spawning other groups...
...that a man with a dicebox might grant and deny paroles as fairly as most boards. If she has met in her travels an idealistic or even an effective penologist, she neglects to report the fact. "That 'prisons are a failure' is a cliche dating from the origin of prison," she writes, and briskly concludes that it is long past time for Americans to abolish their costly, cruel, and in fact morally corrupting penal communities. But when it comes to specific alternatives for dealing with criminals, she refers vaguely to "a radical change...