Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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AS I1IS WIFE look proudly on, Lyndon Baines Johnson i inau¬ gurated by Chief Jus¬ tice of the Supreme Court, Karl Warren. Be¬ hind Warren i vice- president Hubert Hum¬ phrey. Men in the News - Johnson, (ioldwater, Kosygin. Churchill, and Hoover Credit UPI Photo IT W AS BACK to Arizona for Repub¬ lican Barry M. Coldwater. who re¬ main a spokesman for the conserva¬ tive faction of the Republican party. TRIUMPHANT AS NEW leaders of the U.S.S.R. are Aleksei N. Kosygin and Leonoid 1. Brezhnev. INTRODUCTION 5

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A ROYAL NAVY detachment pulled the gun carriage bear- int! Churchill ' s body. Leaders of two nations have now been laid to rest in the humble soil of their birth¬ places. Sir Winston Churchill, who is perhaps the most eminent figure given to history from this century, is buried in the graveyard of St. Martin’s Church in the village of Bladon, Ox¬ fordshire. On the western side of the Atlantic, a man who had been much misunderstood in his own lifetime was eulogized by hundreds. Herbert Clark Hoover, thirty-first president of the United States, died October 20, 1964, and was buried a short way from Rock Island — in the hamlet of West Branch, Iowa. W hen these men died, some said an era was over. It remains to be seen how historians of the future will treat the two, but whatever the outcome, their lives both helped construct the bridge leading from the individualistic outlook of the early twentieth century to the increased swing toward government control that is preva¬ lent today in both England and America. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his vice-president, Lyndon B. Johnson, bridged the gap from November of 1963 to November of 1964 when the people of the United States went to the polls to elect Ken¬ nedy’s successor. Liberalism won, in the form of President Johnson. Although millions voted for the Republican candidate, Barry M. Cold- water, L.B.J. scored what was termed a “land¬ slide” victory. Key issues in the campaign were Viet Nam, Medicare, War on Poverty, Civil Rights, and federal versus states’ rights. The Democrats, in addition to a firm rein on the White House, swept both houses of Congress. On the other side of the world, things are done differently. There, there are no bridges from one policy to another, and no explana¬ tions, either. In late October, the world was shocked when Khrushchev was suddenly re¬ moved from his dual post of Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party. Two men took his place. They are Leonoid I. Brezhnev as First Secretary and Aleksei N. Kosygin as Premier. Khrushchev merely faded quickly from the scene. HERBERT HOOVER, thirty-first president of the United States is shown here on his eightieth birthday. He died on October 20, 1964, at age 90. 4 INTRODUCTION

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“KirsI, across the gulf we cast Kite-born threads, till lines arc passed. And habit builds the bridge at last!” -John Boyle O’Reilly