Home Safety Quotes
Even though the research was done by the U. S. CDC (Communicable Disease Center), the finest public health research center in the world, it was still attacked by the National Rifle Association and many of their supporters in Congress. The response was so intense that in the appropriations for the CDC there was an amendment that required that Federal Money not be spent for “Gun Safety Research”. So Federal Health Agencies were actually barred by Congress from doing any research as to how guns can be used, stored and manufactured more safely.
While hard to believe today, in that era, Presidential candidates often did not travel to campaign. They had surrogates campaigning for them, and the candidate gave interviews and wrote material for their partisan press outlets. But they basically stayed at home.
This was Mr. Mahoney's slogan for the 1966 Maryland gubernatorial campaign. The white backlash vote he intended to win cast their ballots instead for the more moderate candidate—Republican Spiro Agnew.