Historic documents of 1978.

Author
CQ Press [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Thousand Oaks, California : CQ Press, 2013.
Description
1 online resource

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Subject(s)
Summary note
Each volume in this series begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each documents or set of documents begins with an essay that discusses background history and context of the event covered and the document chosen.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 1979.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2014).
Contents
  • January
  • Mondale's eulogy of Humphrey: January 15, 1978
  • State of the Union address, accompanying message: January 19, 1978
  • Justice Department inquiry into Marston dismissal: January 19-23, 1978
  • President's economic report, economic advisers' report: January 20, 27, 1978
  • Carter's budget message, January 23, 1978.
  • February
  • Carter arms sales policy: February 1, November 29, 1978
  • Carter on coal strike: February 11-March 25, 1978
  • Mideast warplane sales: February 14; May 12, 15, 18, 1978.
  • March
  • Civil service reform: March 2; May 23, 1978
  • Rhodesia's 'internal agreement': March 3, 1978
  • Chinese constitution: March 5, 1978
  • Senate ratification of Panama Canal treaties: March 16; April 18, 1978
  • Carter on U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union: March 17; June 7, 1978
  • Carter's urban message: March 27, 1978
  • Court on judicial immunity: March 28, 1978
  • Carter world trip, part II—South America and Africa: March 28-April 3, 1978.
  • April
  • Court on pensions for men and women: April 25, 1978
  • Court on corporate spending in referendum campaigns: April 26, 1978.
  • May
  • Carter on lawyers, doctors: May 4, 5, 1978
  • Court on safety inspections: May 23, 1978
  • Court on newsroom searches: May 31, 1978
  • Carter's NATO speech: May 31, 1978.
  • June
  • Carter water policy: June 6, 1978
  • California's proposition 13: June 6, 8, 1978
  • Solzhenitsyn on Western decline: June 8, 1978
  • Court on media ownership: June 12, 1978
  • Court on endangered species: June 15, 1978
  • Court on historic preservation: June 26, 1978
  • Court on university affirmative action programs: June 28, 1978.
  • July
  • Court on capital punishment: July 3, 1978
  • Court on 'indecent' broadcasts: July 3, 1978
  • Bonn Economic Summit: July 17, 1978
  • Carter 'principles' for national health plan: July 29, 1978
  • U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks: July; December 14, 1978.
  • August
  • China-Japan peace treaty: August 12, 1978
  • District of Columbia voting amendment: August 22, 1978.
  • September
  • Papal succession: September 3; October 22, 1978
  • Camp David accords: September 5-17, 1978
  • Incidence of workplace cancer: September 11, 1978
  • Study of human exposure to P.B.B. in Michigan: September 23, 1978
  • IMF-World Bank Conference: September 24-28, 1978.
  • October
  • Report to Califano on swine flu program: October 21, 1978
  • Carter, Fed actions on dollar and inflation: October 24; November 1, 1978
  • U.S. policy and Iran's crisis: October-December 1978.
  • November
  • Firestone 500 recall: November 29, 1978.
  • December
  • Carter's preservation of Alaska's federal lands: December 1, 1978
  • New European monetary system: December 4, 5, 1978
  • Court on searches and evidence: December 5, 1978
  • Democratic midterm conference: December 8-10, 1978
  • 'Normalization' of U.S.-China relations: December 15, 1978
  • OPEC oil price rise: December 17, 1978
  • FAA flight safety plan: December 27, 1978
  • Spanish democratic constitution: December 29, 1978
  • Korean influence investigation: December 29, 1978
  • Assassinations Committee conclusion: December 31, 1978.
ISBN
1-4833-0235-0
OCLC
875379811
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