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Monday February 16, 1970
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This Day In 1970's History: Monday February 16, 1970
  • The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Judge G. Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court over liberal objections. Despite the long hearings, not one Senator changed his vote. Committe chairman James Eastland predicted confirmation by the full Senate. Civil rights forces led the fight against Carswell. [CBS]

  • President Nixon reaffirmed his support for school integration, but he opposes the primary method for carrying it out. The President's statement on desegregation sets him in opposition to many court-ordered plans which are already in effect. Furthermore, the President's position in many areas remains ambiguous. Welfare Secretary Robert Finch plans to endorse a single uniform standard for desegregation in testimony tomorrow.

    Ronnie Thompson, the Mayor of Macon, Georgia, is leading a new round of white resistance to court-ordered desegregation in his city. In Woodville, Mississippi, whites left the public schools when the court ordered them to desegregate. Only two whites were left, Annette and Thomas Brown, whose parents couldn't afford private school. Now they are in a private school where a white benefactor pays their tuition. [CBS]

  • Laos reported that U.S. planes took action to stop a Communist offensive in the Plain of Jarres. [CBS]

  • In battles in South Vietnam today, many enemy troops were killed in the northern provinces. [CBS]

  • General Lewis Hershey retired as director of Selective Service. Colonel Dee Ingold will become acting director. [CBS]
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