HOLIDAY GREETINGS
PROGRESSIVE Holiday Greetings To President Lyndon B. Johnson, who confidently confronts the challenge of ushering in the "Great Society" after winning one of the greatest election landslide...
...To Mrs...
...To Senator Gaylord A. Nelson, Wisconsin Democrat, who has proposed that we abolish military conscription at long last— Holiday Greetings...
...To all our subscribers and their families everywhere on earth— Holiday Greetings...
...To the American Civil Liberties Union, whose dedicated defense of the rights of all Americans, whatever their station, color, politics, or religion, is without parallel in the land— Holiday Greetings...
...To the people of Oregon, and to Governor Mark Hatfield, Republican, and Senators Wayne Morse and Mau-rine Neuberger, Democrats, their bipartisan leaders on this issue, who voted recently to abolish capital punishment— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator George McGovern, South Dakota Democrat, who has led the way toward action that would prepare this nation to convert its arms economy into a peace economy— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, who have continued to widen the domain of freedom on many fronts, most notably with their one-man, one-vote decision— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator Everett McKinley Dirk-sen, usually one of the Senators we like least, who played a decisive role in securing passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator John Williams, Delaware Republican, who continued to serve as the conscience of a U.S...
...To the Circuit Court of Indiana, which voided that state's Communism Act in quashing the indictment against three students, all officers of the Young Socialist League at the University of Indiana— Holiday Greetings...
...To Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican candidate for President, who was almost alone in speaking out in behalf of the kind of conference of nuclear powers proposed by Communist China after she had exploded her first atomic device—¦ Holiday Greetings...
...Supreme Court, when that tribunal struck down two state loyalty oaths for teachers and employes as "unconstitutionally vague"— Holiday Greetings...
...Senate riddled by scandal— Holiday Greetings...
...To the faculty of the University of Washington and the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, who won a nine-year struggle, in the U.S...
...To James P. Warburg, whose semi-retirement has not prevented him from maintaining his role as one of our most alert and creative critics of the nation's foreign policy— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Synanon Foundation and similar groups which operate rehabilitation homes where former addicts help narcotic users to "hang tough" until they break the habit and can become useful members of society— Holiday Greetings...
...To all the members of The Progressive's staff, who do so much above and beyond the call of duty— Holiday Greetings...
...To Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who braved the wrath of members of Congress and local politicians in closing obsolete military establishments— Holiday Greetings...
...To the more than 9,000 little angels among our subscribers, whose generous contributions each year make it possible for The Progressive to survive and grow— Holiday Greetings...
...To Norman Thomas, who recently reached his eightieth birthday in a life celebrated for its long commitment to a society of freedom and abundance for all— Holiday Greetings...
...And to all men and women everywhere on earth who share a deep hunger for Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men— Holiday Greetings...
...To the Federal Communications Commission which, after long years of delay, granted licenses to the Pacifica Foundation's three controversial FM stations, in New York City, Los Angeles, and Berkeley, in a decision asserting the rights of broadcasters to air the provocative voices of dissent— Holiday Greetings...
...To Izzy Stone, whose /. F. Stone's Weekly is a model of crusading journalism in our nation's capital— Holiday Greetings...
...To Comptroller General Joseph G. Campbell, who has exposed hundreds of millions of dollars of waste by the military establishment— Holiday Greetings...
...To Joseph Rauh, Jr., the brilliant Washington, D.C., attorney and co-founder of Americans for Democratic Action, who has performed prodigious, often unpublicized feats in the struggle for civil rights—¦ Holiday Greetings...
...To the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), the coalition of Negro-led civil rights groups that carried on the drive for registration of Negro voters in Mississippi in the face of relentless legal harassment and terrorism and thus breached a wall of the closed society—Holiday Greetings...
...To the officials of the Xerox Corporation, who have defied the bitter opposition of right-wing extremists by going ahead with their plans to present a $4 million television series on the United Nations— Holiday Greetings...
...To A. J. Muste, who has carried his crusade for peace into the years of his life when most men have retired to the sidelines— Holiday Greetings...
...To Oliver Emmerich, editor of the McComb, Mississippi, Enterprise-Journal, and the group of McComb business and civil leaders who followed him in appealing for—and achieving a measure of—"equal treatment under the law for all citizens" in that long troubled community— Holiday Greetings...
...To those who write for us and those who do the art work— Holiday Greetings...
...Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free' To the editors and publishers of The New Republic, who have just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their distinguished publication— Holiday Greetings...
...To the families of Good Neighbors, Inc., who proved in one part of Washington, D.C., that whites and Negroes can live side by side with social, economic, and cultural benefits to both races— Holiday Greetings...
...To U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who has performed remarkable feats of diplomacy and statesmanship in holding together and strengthening that world body under the most trying circumstances— Holiday Greetings...
...To the men and women of the Peace Corps, who continue to put their country's best foot forward on all the continents of the earth— Holiday Greetings...
...To Martin Luther King, Jr., whose patient quest for racial equality through non-violence has earned him the Nobel Prize for Peace— Holiday Greetings...
...Esther Peterson, the President's Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs, who has been standing firm against the attacks of the National Association of Manufacturers and the food processors and their advertising agencies, in her battle to protect the American housewife from being shortchanged and misled by deceptive, confusing, and sometimes dishonest packaging and advertising— Holiday Greetings...
...To all the brave and dedicated students, teachers, lawyers, clergymen, and doctors who exchanged the security of their campuses and communities to go South to help their Negro fellow Americans win the vote so long denied them— Holiday Greetings...
...To the typesetters, proofreaders, make-up men, engravers, and pressmen who help produce The Progressive, and to the mailmen who deliver the magazine to subscribers in all the fifty states and 116 foreign countries— Holiday Greetings...
...To Leon H. Keyserling, the noted economist, who has done so much to map the road toward a more abundant society for all Americans— Holiday Greetings...
...To Aaron Henry and C. D. King, who made history at the Democratic National Convention last summer with their Mississippi Freedom Party— Holiday Greetings...
...To the small town jury in Okanogan, Washington, that vindicated the good name of a citizen by awarding him $40,000 in his libel suit against ultra-rightists who had smeared him with a disloyalty charge— Holiday Greetings...
...PROGRESSIVE Holiday Greetings To President Lyndon B. Johnson, who confidently confronts the challenge of ushering in the "Great Society" after winning one of the greatest election landslide victories in American history— Holiday Greetings...
...To Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey, whose vast experience in the struggle for progressive programs could prove a decisive factor in the critical year ahead— Holiday Greetings...
...To the administrators, teachers, and supporters of the Free Schools project of Prince Edward County whose compassion and skill opened schoolhouse doors for Negro youngsters who had been locked out for five years by Virginia's white power struture— Holiday Greetings...
...To the National Council for Civic Responsibility, headed by Arthur Larson and a group of distinguished Republicans, Democrats, and independents, which plans twice-weekly radio broadcasts exposing the anti-democratic ideas and ruthless tactics of the John Birch Society and other ultra-right groups— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senator William Fulbright, Arkansas Democrat, who pioneered this past year in exposing many of the self-defeating myths of American foreign policy— Holiday Greetings...
...To Senators Wayne Morse, Oregon, and Ernest Gruening, Alaska, both Democrats, who did so much to educate the nation to the moral and political poverty of our policy in Vietnam— Holiday Greetings...
Vol. 29 • January 1965 • No. 1
