The events of 1968 had a strong bearing on his shift to a more conservative outlook. Excerpted from “POPE BENEDICT XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger.” (c) 2000 by John L. Allen, Jr.The Continuum. Joseph Ratzinger arrived at Tübingen [University] in 1966, still enthusiastic about the promise of Vatican II and ready to take his… Read More How the ’60s Changed Ratzinger
Two Takes. President John F. Kennedy’s interview with NBC anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. They sat down with the President in the White House for an exclusive interview for their program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report. In the interview the President discusses various topics including the nuclear test ban treaty, South Vietnam advisors, tax cuts, and… Read More September 1963. JFK on Tax Cuts, Tariffs, So. Vietnam Advisors, and Civil Rights
Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on “How the New Deal Coalition Fell Apart” in the DNC Chicago riot of 1968. After a moment of goofy kidding around mimicking the “Yippies,” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland tell the most dramatic story of this seminal event which many of us saw on our TVs, horrifying our… Read More The Riot That Tore the Democratic Party Apart: Chicago 1968.
Nicolas Abouchedid writes, “In introducing the Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen to his Firing Line television audience, Willian F. Buckley Jr. once noted that “he [Sheen] is considered by almost everybody a great enigma.” He continues: Those who like to disparage his evangelism have a difficult time accounting for his extraordinary academic record. Those who claim him as a conservative are… Read More William F. Buckley Jr, Archbishop Sheen, Vietnam and Notre Dame
Antiwar Activists Appeal to Hanoi, North Vietnam By Bernard Gwertzman Special to The New York TimesDec. 21, 1976 WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Daniel Ellsberg, Joan Baez, Daniel and Philip Berrigan and dozens of other antiwar activists of the 1960’s and 1970’s have protested to the leaders of unified Vietnam about reports of repressive acts carried out since… Read More Antiwar Activists Appeal to Hanoi Over Human Rights Violations. 1976.
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