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Saturday, April 21, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1971 — In Washington, D.C., Vietnam Veterans Against the War defy the Supreme Court and stay on the National Mall. Park police decline to arrest. Tomorrow’s headline: ‘Vets Overrule Supreme Court.’” From the official Vietnam Veterans Against the War website: Chronology: Operation Dewey Canyon III “Operation Dewey Canyon I took place during January and February 1969. During a five-day period in February, elements of the Third Marine Division invaded Laos. Operation Dewey Canyon II was the name given to the first …

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Friday, April 20, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1971 — Maryland building contractor Lester Matz pays a $2,500 bribe to Vice President and freelance media critic Spiro ‘Ted’ Agnew.” Agnew began blazing the GOP’s anti-media trail in 1968. Confronted with proof he’d accepted bribes, he would not confess but pled nolo contendre. Though he was forced to resign in 1973, his Party still follows the trail he pioneered. At right: The Gazette’s reference copy of Where he Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro T. Agnew. From page 114: …

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1775 — Minutemen and British clash in Lexington. Zechariah Fowle’s former apprentice Isaiah Thomas is there.” We will be forever in the debt of Isaiah Thomas for a couple of reasons: like every other American, for his service to the patriot cause; and, as stewards of this newspaper, for his most excellent first-hand account, in his History of Printing, of growing up in the household of Zechariah Fowle and witnessing, at a very young age, the oppression of Zechariah’s brother Daniel …

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1842 — Critics of Rhode Island’s government, which restricts voting to landowning males, hold another election and select Thomas W. Dorr as Governor, giving the state a second government.” Our reference to a “second government” might seem casual to the point of snark, but Rhode Island’s Secretary of State officially lists Dorr as Governor simultaneously with Samuel Ward King.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1935 — Sun Myung Moon has a revelation: Jesus Christ asks him to complete His mission.” “One only has to consider the nature of the birth of Unificationism to understand that its foundations are firmly anchored upon the pillars of Christian faith. On an Easter morning in 1935, a 15 year old Korean youth received his calling from Jesus Christ. Jesus revealed to the young Sun Myung Moon that the “end of the age” was fast approaching and in order for …

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Monday, April 16, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: “1953 — Ike likens militarism to ‘humanity hanging from a cross of iron.’” Here’s an excerpt from Ike’s speech: Here’s the full text, which was delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Speaking of newspapers, in 1955 Union Leader publisher William Loeb wrote an editorial referring to President Eisenhower as the “Prince of Appeasement.” Back then people who thought like Loeb were considered crackpots. These days Ike would be drummed out of the GOP for his liberal tendencies and Bill …

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