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June 29, 1970. Last U.S. troops withdrawn from Cambodia...
...recent months there seems to have been a certain mellowing in Spivak's manner, on the air and off, which is perhaps the result of a heart attack he suffered last year. He has added a nap to his daily schedule and withdrawn from the position of lead-off questioner on the show's panel, taking over the more detached role of moderator. Still, flashes of the old Spivak occur. To Edmund Muskie, fence-straddling on the challenge to McGovern's California delegates at the Democratic Convention: "Senator, why is it so hard for you to come...
According to Justice Department attorneys, Magruder gave his approval for the use of up to $250,000 to be spent on what the attorneys called "political intelligence operations." It is not known whether that entire amount was spent, but at least $50,000 was withdrawn for this purpose out of a secret fund of possibly $700,000 in cash kept in the office of Maurice Stans, former Secretary of Commerce and now finance chairman of the Nixon committee. Justice Department officials told TIME that Magruder hired another former White House aide, G. Gordon Liddy, to head the political intelligence squad...
During a brief period subsequent to the ceasefire, the U.S. will withdraw all of its remaining forces from the Vietnam area. North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government will release all American prisoners of war during that interim. North Vietnamese troops may be withdrawn from some of the most heavily contested areas in the South, but their final withdrawal will not occur until the formation of a permanent government in the South...
McGovern's own behavior is also very much to blame, and that fact is most damagingly symbolized by what the numerically minded Chinese would undoubtedly call "The Failure of the Double Thousands." His $1,000-per-person revenue sharing plan, first offered, then withdrawn, left him in the double jeopardy of seeming both unwise and wishy-washy, although he spiritedly argued last week that a mature leader must have the right to change his mind. Other items fell into place, leaving the impression of just another politician with his moistened finger to the wind. The purity of his stand...