7 O'clock News / Silent Night

Silent night, holy night
All is calm
All is bright (President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination by everyone)
Round yon virgin (for every type of housing, but it had no chance from the start)
(And everyone in Congress knew it) mother and child (a compromise was painfully worked out)
(In the House Judiciary Committee)

Holy infant (in Los Angeles today, comedian Lenny Bruce died)
So tender and mild (of what was believed to be an overdose of narcotics)
(Bruce was 42 years old)
Sleep in heavenly peace (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)
Sleep in heavenly peace (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)

Silent night (In Chicago, Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses)
(Was brought before a grand jury today for indictment) holy night
(The nurses were found stabbed) all is calm (and strangled in their Chicago apartment)
(In Washington, the atmosphere was tense today) all is bright (as a special subcommittee)
(Of the House Committee on Un-American Activities)
(Continued its probe into anti Vietnam war protests) Round yon virgin
(Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings) mother and child
(When they began chanting anti-war slogans)

Holy infant (Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there)
So tender and mild (is a substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam)
(The US should look forward to five more years of war) sleep in heavenly peace (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 US")
Sleep in heavenly peace (that's the seven o'clock edition of the news, goodnight)