Simon And Garfunkel - 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night Lyrics

Silent night
Holy night
All is calm
All is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace

This is the early evening edition of the news.
The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the
open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill.
Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders
of the measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering
discrimination by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary
Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was
believed to be an overdoes of narcotics. Bruce was 42 years old.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans
for an open housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.
Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the
march and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be
called out if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago
Tuesday.

In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student
nurses, was brought before a grand jury today for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago
apartment.


In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special
subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Vietnam war protests. Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting anti-war slogans.

Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a
substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam, the U.S. should
look forward to five more years of war. In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.


That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
Goodnight.
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If you substitute Bush for Nixon and Iraq for Vietnam, sounds a little too familiar, eh?

A lot of their songs make me weepy, but that one in particular, especially around Christmastime :cry:

to and from work today.

Now I want to hear that. I haven't heard it in a long time.

After dozens of listens, it can still get to me if I'm in a certain frame of mind. One of the most moving musical pieces that I know of.