A Look Back at the Year Ahead
Lipez, Richard
A GLANCE BACK AT THE YEAR AHEAD RICHARD LIPEZ We will soon be reading and hearing a lot about the most newsworthy events of 1973, as well as the least newsworthy events of 1973 that made news...
...History was made in June 1974 when Secretary of State Ziegler solved the fuel crisis by getting the Arabs to swap Libya for Massachusetts...
...Nixon, Leonid Richard Lipez is a columnist for the Amherst Record in Massachusetts...
...Undoubtedly the hottest news story of the year came in December when Chou En-lai's daughter and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Kissinger were married in the Great Hall at San Clemente...
...With July came the end of the fiscal year and the distribution of another batch of revenue-sharing checks to the nation's cities and towns...
...The President tried then to impound the bill of impeachment...
...Philadelphia announced that it was starting its own air force, and Memphis was going ahead with plans to build a luminescent dome on the sewage treatment plant...
...This effort failed when Representative Bella Abzug stuck the bill in her hat like a feather and ran a gauntlet of White House neo-plumbers under the Capitol dome between the House and the Senate, and personally delivered the writ of impeachment to the President of the Senate...
...The President replied through David Eisenhower that even though the moon was blue he did not have spaghetti sauce on his necktie...
...Nixon was guilty of nothing more than "puttin' on airs," which the Senator thought was unseemly but not impeachable...
...Some Congressmen were openly skeptical of this explanation, but Acting Attorney General Yor-ty said it sounded constitutional to him...
...The hostelries would be called Superpower Inns...
...The President threatened to veto the bill but finally bowed to the wishes of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said they needed the aircraft carrier in order to carry out the war for peace...
...The New York Times criticized what it called "this astonishing development" and called for Mr...
...I have obtained an advance copy of 1974's list of top news stories and reveal it now in order to uphold the American public's inalienable right to get it over with...
...The funds were regarded as a special boon to financially strapped major urban areas...
...The President was in the news again in February when, after a summit conference in Key Bis-cayne, White House News Secretary Norm Tungs-pohr quietly announced that Mr...
...Other interpretations were rampant...
...Brezhnev, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo had formed an investment company and planned to create a chain of resort hotels...
...The New York Times criticized what it called "this astonishing development" and again called for President Nixon's resignation...
...Fifty-two ministers of agriculture and the Hollywood creme de la creme were present as General Haig read the vows and President Nixon looked on approvingly...
...Senator Eastland summed up the view of the victorious anticonviction forces when he said that Mr...
...Through this ingenious deal, the United States got the oil it needed, and the Arabs got some good politicians...
...The fall Congressional elections ended in confusion when ninety-two per cent of the nation's voters availed themselves of the write-in privilege and simply voted no...
...Editors of both the AP and UPI selected the Kissinger-Chou nuptials as the major news story of 1974, narrowly edging out the impeachment trial, the resort hotel investment company, and the end-of-the-year American invasion of Taiwan...
...The big news story in January of 1974 was President Nixon's impeachment, which passed the House of Representatives after it was tacked onto a military funding authorization bill...
...The President understood that...
...Long-range plans called for an even larger chain of more moderately priced Big Three Motor Lodges...
...The people have spoken," said the President, who interpreted the vote as a mandate to phase out Congress...
...The impeachment trial was brief...
...A typical district was the 35th in Pennsylvania, where incumbent Tramwell Postum got fifty-two votes, his opponent Drew Trueblood received thirty-eight votes, and 5,358 negative ballots were cast...
...The President was exonerated by a vote of eleven to seven, with eighty-two Senators abstaining, or absent due to bad head colds, skiing accidents, or prior commitments to inspect the Jamaican Air Force...
...This act alone served as a severe blow to neo-plumberism...
...A GLANCE BACK AT THE YEAR AHEAD RICHARD LIPEZ We will soon be reading and hearing a lot about the most newsworthy events of 1973, as well as the least newsworthy events of 1973 that made news anyway...
...Nixon's resignation...
...I thought I was voting for an aircraft carrier," Congressman Dwayne Camelopard explained to some of his more irate constituents...
...Congress was also hostile to the deal—one Senator openly called it "high-handed"—and set up a special select committee to investigate...
Vol. 38 • January 1974 • No. 1
