A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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April 29, 1974 - MPR’s Bob Potter interviews Mulford Q. Sibley, University of Minnesota political science professor, about President Nixon and impeachment. Sibley states Vietnam has caused a culture of deception in American politics, and that impeachment of President Nixon should include Vietnam war crimes as well.
May 7, 1974 - During a peace rally at the University of Minnesota in May, 1974, Mulford Q. Sibley speaks about the anti-war movement.
May 7, 1974 - A Peace Rally at the University of Minnesota in May, 1974, Paul Murphy talks about war-making powers and to whom they belong.
May 18, 1974 - Minnesota's senior citizens air their grievances before a panel of senators and representatives.
May 22, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten talks with Robert Provost, board member of the Minnesota Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, about programs available to parents in assisting their child.
May 24, 1974 - MPR’s Gary Eichten reports on a Minnesota Supreme Court case decision involving Lawrence International Salon. The ruling states that women hairstylists can now cut men's hair (as opposed to men going to barbers only).
May 24, 1974 - A discussion concerning open-pit and underground copper-nickel mining operations which International Nickel has proposed to begin near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and the Town of Ely, Minnesota. Panel members include John Herman, Sierra Club attorney; Victor Arnold, State Planning Agency; William Bryce, Department of Natural Resources-Division of Mines; Miron Heinselman, US Forest Service; and Dean Ramstad, of International Nickel.
May 25, 1974 - Paul Murphy, professor of history at University of Minnesota, and Professor Clyde W. Summers of Yale Law School debate the issue of impeachment, as it regarded to President Nixon. Murphy argued for precedence, Summers for uniqueness of current circumstance. Debate held at the University of Minnesota.
June 2, 1974 - Remarks by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey before the annual meeting of Saint Paul Area United Way at the Hilton Hotel. Speech highlights volunteerism.
June 7, 1974 - On this program of Firing Line, William F. Buckley interviews Eugene McCarthy on how the post-Watergate presidency should look, and how the office might be revised so as to bring it back within republican discipline.