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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46554 RESPOND TO SOVIET REJECTION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senators Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), left, and Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) hold a copy of a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dated Oct. 26, in which the Kremlin official said that the Soviet Union had made no agreement to allow Jews and others to emigrate in exchange for U.S. trade concessions. The rejection of any agreement on emigration and trade was also published by Tass, the official Soviet press agency, and broadcast on regional television and radio in the Soviet Union on Dec. 18. Sen. Jackson, who has led the drive to included the emigration stipulation in the trade legislation, said that he would press for approval of the trade bill by Congress and noted that if the Russians did not liberalize emigration, they would lose the trade benefits. Some observers felt the Tass story might be a “face-saving” tactic on the part of the Soviet government for its own people. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-12C-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., United States. Congress. Senate., Gromyko, Andreĭ Andreevich, 1909-1989--Correspondence.Topics:Legislators--United States., Treaties., Emigration and immigration., Cold War.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union., Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362269
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46660 THOUSANDS PROTEST COURT’S ABORTION DECISION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A massive right-to-life rally, involving more than 30,000 adherents of an effort to reverse the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion, is tagged on the steps of the Capitol in Washington. Some estimates of the crowd ran as high as 50,000 persons from “nearly every state,” including Hawaii, and the rally and subsequent “march for life” around the Capitol was described as the largest “pro-life” gathering ever. The demonstration marked the second anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973 Court decision, which largely overturned most state abortion laws. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RN-WAS-2D-75-DS)Creator:Reni Newsphotos, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), United States. Supreme Court--Anniversaries, etc.Topics:Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Abortion--Government policy--Citizen participation., Pro-life movement--United States., Picketing--Washington (D.C.), Anniversaries.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362268
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46556 ROCKEFELLER TAKES OATH AS VICE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Holding a family Bible in his left hand, Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States (top photo). Chief Justice Warren Burger administers the oath in the Senate chamber on the night of Dec. 19. Two hours earlier, the House of Representative, on a vote of 287 to 128, confirmed the former New York governor as the nation’s second highest official. The Senate had confirmed Mr. Rockefeller a week before. Below, President Gerald Ford (left) and Mr. Rockefeller wave as they leave the White House en route to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12C-74-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., White House (Washington, D.C.)Topics:Vice presidents--United States., Oaths., Presidents--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362237
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46556 ROCKEFELLER TAKES OATH AS VICE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Holding a family Bible in his left hand, Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States (top photo). Chief Justice Warren Burger administers the oath in the Senate chamber on the night of Dec. 19. Two hours earlier, the House of Representative, on a vote of 287 to 128, confirmed the former New York governor as the nation’s second highest official. The Senate had confirmed Mr. Rockefeller a week before. Below, President Gerald Ford (left) and Mr. Rockefeller wave as they leave the White House en route to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12C-74-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979., Burger, Warren E., 1907-1995., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)Topics:Vice presidents--United States., Oaths., Judges--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362236
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46550 CAPITAL NATIVITY SCENE RISES AGAIN WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Rev. Herbert Fitzpatrick (right) of the First Baptist Church, Riverdale, Md., and Vaughn Barkdoll of the American Christian Heritage Association of Greenbelt, Md., dedicate a Nativity Scene near the Ellipse in Washington. Located adjacent to the annual Pageant of Peace display, the Nativity Scene was the subject of a suit a year ago. Sponsored by the National Park Service, the suit resulted in a court decision banning the manger scene, citing “excessive government entanglement with religion.” The Nativity Scene was erected by the American Christian Heritage Association, which sponsored it last year. This year they were given a permit by the park service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RN-WAS-12C-74-DS)Creator:Reni Newsphotos, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) (photographer)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Fitzpatrick, Herbert., Barkdoll, Vaughn., American Christian Heritage Association (Greenbelt, Md.)Topics:Crèches (Nativity scenes)--Washington (D.C.), Church and state--United States., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Dedication services--Washington (D.C.), Prayer.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), President’s Park (Washington, D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362225
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46643 ALLON MEETS WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (left) meets with Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger at the Pentagon. Mr. Allon, who also met with President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger and briefly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin while in Washington, expressed his country’s dismay over the Soviet Union’s rejection of a 1972 trade agreement with the U.S., an agreement which had been tied to the emigration of Soviet Jews. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-1C-75-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Allon, Yigal, 1918-1980., Schlesinger, James R., Pentagon (Va.), United States. Department of Defense.Topics:Cabinet officers--United States., Cabinet officers--Israel., Emigration and immigration.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), Israel--Foreign relations--United States., United States--Foreign relations--Israel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362221
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46546 SENATORS SEE UN HURT BY PLO VOTE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seven of the 71 Senators who sent a letter to President Ford saying that United Nations support for the Palestine Liberation Organization undermined the world body as well as U.S. foreign policy discuss the letter during a Capitol Hill news conference. From left to right are Senators Clifford Case (R-N.J.), Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), Richard Schweiker (R-Pa.), Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) and Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio). The letter said the recent U.N. events “dramatize the need for the United States to take the lead in organizing our friends and allies to resist political and economic blackmail in the future. We do not believe that a policy of appeasement will be any more successful now than it proved to be in the nineteen-thirties.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12C-74-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Case, Clifford P. (Clifford Philip), 1904-1982., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., Schweiker, Richard S. (Richard Schultz), 1926-2015., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Ribicoff, Abraham, 1910-1998., Metzenbaum, Howard M., United States. Congress. Senate., United Nations. General Assembly.Topics:Legislators--United States., Press conferences--Washington (D.C.), Arab-Israeli conflict., Recognition (International law)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Israel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362216
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Creator:Reni Newsphotos, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Fitzpatrick, Herbert., Barkdoll, Vaughn., American Christian Heritage Association (Greenbelt, Md.)Topics:Crèches (Nativity scenes)--Washington (D.C.), Church and state--United States., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Dedication services--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), President’s Park (Washington, D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362185
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Title:Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., Burger, Warren E., 1907-1995., United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.), White House (Washington, D.C.)Topics:Vice presidents--United States., Oaths., Presidents--United States., Judges--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362177
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Title:Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Case, Clifford P. (Clifford Philip), 1904-1982., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., Schweiker, Richard S. (Richard Schultz), 1926-2015., Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978., Ribicoff, Abraham, 1910-1998., Metzenbaum, Howard M., United States. Congress. Senate., United Nations. General Assembly.Topics:Legislators--United States., Press conferences--Washington (D.C.), Arab-Israeli conflict., Recognition (International law)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Israel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362135
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Title:Creator:United Press International. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983., Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986., United States. Congress. Senate., Gromyko, Andreĭ Andreevich, 1909-1989--Correspondence.Topics:Legislators--United States., Treaties., Emigration and immigration., Cold War.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union., Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362125
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Creator:American Christian Heritage Association (Greenbelt, Md.) (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Fitzpatrick, Herbert., Barkdoll, Vaughn., American Christian Heritage Association (Greenbelt, Md.)Topics:Crèches (Nativity scenes)--Washington (D.C.), Church and state--United States., Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Dedication services--Washington (D.C.)Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), President’s Park (Washington, D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362105
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Creator:United Press International. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Allon, Yigal, 1918-1980., Schlesinger, James R., Pentagon (Va.), United States. Department of Defense.Topics:Cabinet officers--United States., Cabinet officers--Israel., Emigration and immigration.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), Israel--Foreign relations--United States., United States--Foreign relations--Israel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362070
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46245 PRESIDENT DISAVOWS GENERAL’S REMARKS ON JEWS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Ford has reproved the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. George S. Brown, for making “ill-advised” remarks which claimed that Israel has “too much influence” in the U.S. Congress. The general was also quoted as saying, Jews “own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers.” Ron Nessen, the President’s press secretary, told newsmen that Mr. Ford had disavowed the remarks made by Gen. Brown on Oct. 10 at Duke University. He said the President “considers Gen. Brown’s remarks ill-advised and poorly handled” and “feels very strongly about it.” Several national Jewish organizations have urged President Ford to dismiss Gen. Brown. They charged that his remarks, made public Nov. 13, were malicious and prejudicial to Israel and American Jews. Members of Congress also protested the general’s comments. Gen. Brown, in a telegram to the Jewish War Veterans and in a later statement, apologized for his remarks made during a question and answer session following a speech to Duke law students in Durham, N.C. He said his “true feelings concerning Jewish Americans were not reflected” in the remarks reported in the press. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-11B-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Brown, George S., 1918-1978., United States. Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Topics:Generals--United States., Antisemitism--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361966
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46294 PRESIDENT FORD GRANTS PARDONS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Ford gives pens to members of his clemency board after signing papers granting full pardons to eight civilians convicted for their resistance to the Vietnam war and giving conditional clemency to 10 others who will receive full pardons after completing periods of alternative service. From left are: Gen. Lewis W. Walt, former Marine Corps commandant; Charles E. Goodell, chairman of the clemency board; and Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., head of the Urban League. Mr. Ford was acting on the first recommendations from the nine-member clemency board established on Sept. 16. The board has received 770 applications for clemency from persons already convicted and punished for desertion or draft evasion. Names of those given pardons were not released. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12A-74-DS)Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Walt, Lewis W., 1913-1989., Goodell, Charles E. (Charles Ellsworth), 1926-1987., Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), Jr., 1935-2021., United States. Presidential Clemency Board.Topics:Presidents--United States., Pardon--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Draft resisters., Draft--Law and legislation--United States., Draft resisters--United States., Signing ceremonies--Washington (D.C.), Executive power--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361953
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: P-46496 NATIONAL ‘DAY OF FASTING’ URGED WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) holds up a potato which, along with a two-ounce millet cake, a piece of raw onion and a quarter glass of lukewarm plain tea, he said is the “approximate daily ration of 500 million people around the world who are starving,” as he joins World Vision International President W. Stanley Mooneyham (left) in announcing “Project FAST” at a “non-luncheon hunger event” in the Capitol. The program, aimed at bringing about “permanent changes” in the nation’s food consumption patterns during the next 12 months, is being coordinated by World Vision, a California-based Christian humanitarian organization. The two men called on all Americans to willingly experience hunger as an “effective way of responding to the increasingly tragic world hunger crisis.” One way of doing this is suggested by a resolution introduced in the Senate by Sen. Hatfield which would designate Monday of Thanksgiving Week next year as a “National Day of Fasting.” It further suggests that Americans “re-evaluate their own life styles” and during 1975 “seek to change their habits from those of overconsumption to those of conservation.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-12A-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011., Mooneyham, W. Stanley (Walter Stanley), 1926-, World Vision International.Topics:Legislators--United States., Special days--United States., Food supply., Fasting--Religious aspects--Christianity., Starvation., Malnutrition.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361928
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46517 ALLON MEETS WITH FORD WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon listens to President Ford at the White House as they met to discuss how to move the Middle East peace talks forward. Mr. Allon held seven hours of talks with American officials, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-12B-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., White House (Washington, D.C.), Allon, Yigal, 1918-1980.Topics:Presidents--United States., Cabinet officers--Israel., Arab-Israeli conflict.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), United States--Foreign relations--Israel., Israel--Foreign relations--United States.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361919
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: J-46210 FATHER DRINAN: ZIONISM EXPRESSES RELIGIOUS BELIEFS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Zionism is “more than a political movement; it is an expression of worldwide Jewish religious beliefs and hopes,” Rep. Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.) said in remarks made before the national executive committee of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. “Zionism is a profoundly held spiritual conviction of Jewish fidelity to the biblical covenant which links a people, a faith and a land in a unique religious and mystical unity,” the Roman Catholic Jesuit priest-congressman stated in a speech which was inserted into the Congressional Record. It is “not for a Christian to state,” he added, “whether or not Zionism and Judaism are theologically separable. But politically they cannot be separated. Zionism is the mystique, the ‘elan vital’ of Israel. To equate Zionism with racism represents a frontal assault against the core values of Judaism.” In the light of recent public statements concerning the alleged influence of Jews in this country who are staunch supporters of Israel, it is time, Father Drinan said, “as never before,” for Americans, “especially Christian Americans,” to “reassess the fundamental reasons why the United States has a unique and profound alliance with Israel.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (R-8A-76-DS)Creator:Religious News Service. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Clergy., Drinan, Robert F., B’nai B’rith. Anti-defamation League--Congresses.Topics:Clergy--Washington (D.C.), Legislators--United States., Zionism., Catholic Church and Zionism., Zionism and Judaism.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361910
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: C-46287 BUTZ COMMENT ABOUT POPE SCORED NEW YORK -- Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz has been scored by Roman Catholic and Italian-American leaders after he was quoted using a mock Italian accent in dismissing Pope Paul’s criticism of wealthy nations for telling poor nations to mee their hunger problems by controlling their populations. “He no playa the game, he no maka the rules,” Mr. Butz was reported in the New York Daily News as telling a breakfast meeting of newsmen in Washington. Later, he said his remark was “off the record.” Denouncing the remark as “a crude, pointed insult directed at Pope Paul VI,” the Archdiocese of New York sent a telegram to President Ford demanding that his Agriculture Secretary “apologize immediately or resign.” Rep. Mario Biaggi (D-N.Y.) also sent a telegram to President Ford asking that Mr. Butz be dismissed “for his anti-Catholic, anti-Italian remarks” and charging that the Secretary has “shown an offensive, bigoted mentality.” The New York archdiocesan Senate of Priests also called for his “immediate resignation or removal.” Mr. Butz’ remark, according to an Agriculture Department aide, was a retelling of a joke which he had heard at the World Food Conference in Rome, which Mr. Butz attended as head of the American delegation. The Agriculture Secretary has apologized for it. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-11D-74-DS)Creator:United Press International. (publisher)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Butz, Earl L. (Earl Lauer), 1909-2008., United States. Department of Agriculture., World Food Conference (1974 : Rome, Italy), United Nations--Congresses.Topics:Cabinet officers--United States., Economic policy--Congresses., Food supply--Congresses and conventions., Invective., Congresses and conventions--Italy--Rome.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.), Rome (Italy)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361904
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Title:Creator:Wide World Photos, Inc. (author)Subject names:Religious News Service--Archives., Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006., Oval Office (White House, Washington, D.C.), Walt, Lewis W., 1913-1989., Goodell, Charles E. (Charles Ellsworth), 1926-1987., Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), Jr., 1935-2021., United States. Presidential Clemency Board.Topics:Presidents--United States., Pardon--United States., Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Draft resisters., Draft--Law and legislation--United States., Draft resisters--United States., Signing ceremonies--Washington (D.C.), Executive power--United States.Geographic subjects:Washington (D.C.)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:361878
