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Jul 10 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
On @TODAY show, Joe Garagiola, Barbara Walters and Frank McGee from Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week:
Jesse Jackson and Illinois delegates at 1972 Democratic convention, fifty years ago this week:
In red, white and blue, Barbara Walters of @TODAYshow interviews feminists Bella Abzug, Liz Carpenter, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan at Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week:
Shirley MacLaine and California delegates, Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week: #AP
Shirley Chisholm demonstration, 1972 Democratic convention:
Turned out that the anonymous author of the epithet “acid, amnesty and abortion,” which Nixon’s campaign used against McGovern in 1972, was Thomas Eagleton, in an off-the-record interview with Robert Novak.

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Jul 10
Shirley Temple thanks Eleanor Roosevelt for White House visit, tomorrow 1938:
Ten-year-old Shirley Temple’s personal stationery is singular.
Shirley Temple campaigning for a Presidential candidate thirty years after she called on Eleanor Roosevelt:
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Jul 5
As candidate for Illinois Attorney General, Mayor Nancy Rotering told Chicago Sun-Times in Feb. 2018, “We in Highland Park banned assault weapons and were taken to the United States Supreme Court and we prevailed. It’s now constitutional to ban these weapons of war in Illinois."
In 2019, running for reelection, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering, well known as champion of gun safety, defeated father of the person of interest in yesterday's tragedy.
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Jul 3
LBJ’s “King of Barbecue,” Walter Jetton, at work on LBJ Ranch, 1963: #LBJL
Ad for himself by LBJ’s Barbecue King, Walter Jetton:
Lady Bird Johnson’s recipe for barbecue sauce:
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Jul 2
LBJ signed monumental Civil Rights Act, today 1964:
In East Room, LBJ signs Civil Rights Act in presence of RFK and MLK, today 1964:
As LBJ was the first to say, Civil Rights Act, signed today 1964, would have been almost impossible to pass in Senate in the absence of his partnership with Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois [to left of Johnson]:
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Jul 1
Here's the extremely diverse group chosen by Nixon for the July 4, 1970 "Honor America Day" he staged at Lincoln Memorial. (Sound like any other deposed President you can think of?)
Here are some attendees at Nixon's "Honor America Day" at Lincoln Memorial, July 4, 1970.
Protesters in Reflecting Pool at Nixon's "Honor America Day," Lincoln Memorial, July 4, 1970:
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