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Box 82

 Container

Contains 26 Results:

The Bombing, 1969-03-09

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

United States President Richard Nixon holds a large key while standing next to a locked trunk labeled "The Bombing."

Dates: 1969-03-09

French Unions, 1969-03-11

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 2
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Two men, representing French unions, hang over a cliff while fighting each other with pickaxes. Two other men, representing the United States dollar and the British pound, are attached to the French unions by a rope and cling to the top of the cliff.

Dates: 1969-03-11

There's nothing else here - I guess that wraps it up..., 1969-03-12

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 3
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Investigators leave a dark house labeled "The Ray Case," failing to notice several sets of eyes peering out of a dark room. The Ray Case refers to James Earl Ray, who was convicted of assassinating Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dates: 1969-03-12

"There's no real problem in making a turn against the red light - you just have to use the horn a lot!", 1969-03-13

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 4
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A car turns the wrong way onto a one-way street, nearly hitting two pedestrians in the crosswalk.

Dates: 1969-03-13

"Fine! How's things at your end?", 1969-03-13

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 5
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Uncle Sam, representing the United States, and a man representing the Soviet Union wrestle a large, fire-breathing dragon.

Dates: 1969-03-13

Ho Chi Minh, 1969-03-18

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 6
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President of North Vietnam Hồ Chí Minh stands behind a panel looking through a hole, as part of a game where balls can be thrown at him. United States President Richard Nixon prepares to throw a hand grenade.

Dates: 1969-03-18

Cosa Nostra Villa, 1969-03-19

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 7
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A police officer stands with his foot on the arm of a man sitting in a pool at Cosa Nostra Villa. The man holds a drink and smokes a cigar. The pool is labeled "respectability."

Dates: 1969-03-19

We in the house just approved the second pay raise in two months - will you Senators go along…?, 1969-03-20

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 8
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A member of the United States House of Representatives asks a room full of smiling Senators if they will go along with a pay raise.

Dates: 1969-03-20

"Only one cookie before the afternoon nap?? Will you stand for that? To the barricades!", 1969-03-21

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 9
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A student protestor stands outside of the fence for Tweedle-dum kindergarten attempting to encourage unrest among the children inside.

Dates: 1969-03-21

Laird, Fulbright, Gore, 1969-03-23

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 10
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United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird fences, using a small anti-ballistic missile (ABM) instead of a sword, with Senators J. William Fulbrigth and Albert Gore Sr. The senators use small branches instead of swords.

Dates: 1969-03-23

Rationalize it! If we don't fight them here we'll be fighting them in downtown Moscow - we have to contain Chinese communism in Asia..., 1969-03-24

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 11
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Soviet Union soliders stand next to a sign that has the words "Chen Pao Island" crossed out and replaced with "Damansky I.". A large group of Chinese people carrying a large photograph of Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong.

Dates: 1969-03-24

Oh, good - some resistance. I was beginning to feel like a bloody fool., 1969-03-25

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 12
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Two British soldiers stand at a military checkpoint on Anguilla. Two diminutive Anguillan people stand nearby, one throws a rock. Most of the caption for this cartoon is missing.

Dates: 1969-03-25

"Married two months and they want you to go to Cambodia..?", 1969-03-26

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 13
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United States President Richard Nixon appears as an unhappy husband sitting at the kitchen table. His wife, labeled "Doves," says, "Married two months and they want you to go to Cambodia..?"

Dates: 1969-03-26

"Shhh! They said they'll show up if we don't blab it around…", 1969-03-28

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 14
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A group of people peer out of a door featuring multiple large signs advertising secret peace talks between North and South Vietnam.

Dates: 1969-03-28

"Oh, brother! Could you spend!", 1969-03-31

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 15
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United States President Richard Nixon and a group of men from Nixon and Co. accountants go through a large pile of paper. One of the accountants looks up at a portrait of former President Lyndon Johnson and says, "Oh, brother! Could you spend!"

Dates: 1969-03-31

"Excuse me, please…", 1969-04-03

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 16
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A large crowd stands in Jerusalem, including figures representing the United States, Israel, the Soviet Union, and many others.

Dates: 1969-04-03

"Wait! We could tax it and make money!", 1969-04-04

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 17
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A legislator gives a speech regarding pornography, first denouncing it and then becoming intrigued by the idea of taxing it.

Dates: 1969-04-04

"You are now leaving California", 1969-04-07

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 18
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A part of California falls into the sea as several nearby people hold signs warning of an impending earthquake.

Dates: 1969-04-07

"Of course he wants it! Tell him it's his patriotic duty…tell him it's not safe to be without one…tell him to be realistic…", 1969-04-08

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 19
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Two members of the United States military attempt to sell a large anti-ballistic missile (ABM) to a civilian.

Dates: 1969-04-08

Hussein, 1969-04-10

 Item — Box: 82, Folder: 20
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United States President Richard Nixon shakes hands with King Hussein of Jordan as a fire labeled "Jordanian guerillas" burns behind them.

Dates: 1969-04-10