NIXON NIXES HANDOVER OF WATERGATE TAPES
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) 40 years ago today, January 4, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon refused to hand over his audio tape recordings and other documents that had been subpoenaed by the United States Senate Select Committee investigating the Watergate affair.
Watergate became public with the break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel here in the Nation's capital in the summer of 1972 by members of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP).
Mr. Nixon's decision to not handover the tapes to the Watergate committee has been described as "the beginning of the end" of the Nixon Presidency.
LBJ REPORTS ON STATE OF UNION
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) 49 years ago today, January 4, 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union message following his landslide election in November 1964 over Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
In the message, President Johnson outlined his Great Society program.
In the message, President Johnson outlined his Great Society program.
LBJ introduced the following proposals, all which would pass the Congress and be signed into law...
Medicare-Medicaid
Head Start
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Medicare-Medicaid
Head Start
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
LBJ also reaffirmed the commitment of the government of the United States to support South Vietnam.
He said...
"Our own security is tied to the peace of Asia."
He said...
"Our own security is tied to the peace of Asia."
LBJ Reports on the
State of the Union
London, England (JFK+50) Renown poet T.S. Eliot died at the age of 76 here in London 49 years ago today, January 4, 1965.
Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922) is considered "the most influential work of poetry of the 20th Century".
Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922) is considered "the most influential work of poetry of the 20th Century".
The opening lines of the poem are:
"April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
In 1948, Eliot was awarded "The Order of Merit" by King George VI and won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature.
