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Tuesday January 4, 1972
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This Day In 1970's History: Tuesday January 4, 1972
  • Senator Edmund Muskie will declare his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on TV tonight, and Senator George McGovern has filed for the New Hampshire primary. McGovern vowed to work against Muskie and prove the pollsters wrong. [CBS]

  • The Peace Corps warned Congress to approve its funding or face a reduction of 50% in Corps volunteers. [CBS]

  • The former chairman of the Penn Central Railroad and two others are charged with diverting $21 million from the railroad for their own use. [CBS]

  • The federal government charged migrant labor contractors in the South with transporting nine peach pickers from Georgia to South Carolina and holding them in involuntary servitude for two months. The laborers are white; the contractors are black. [CBS]

  • President Nixon visited San Diego to announce a $55 million shipbuilding contract that will boost employment there. [CBS]
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