The American Legion Magazine [Volume 90, No. 1 (January 1971)]

Cover by Roland A. Wilson -- West Germany's Flirtation with the Soviets: West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt Has Embarked Upon a Precarious Mission as He Goes Behind the Iron Curtain to Deal with the Russians by Robert P. Lee -- The Story of the USO: A Look at the United Service Organization as It Prepares to Celebrate Its 30th Birthday by Louis Sobol -- What to Give on a Silver Wedding Anniversary? . . .: Silver Gift Information, for the Record Number of Americans, Mostly Veterans, Whose 25th Wedding Anniversary Comes Up in 1971 by Leavitt A. Knight, Jr -- Should Radio-TV Spending for Political Campaigns Be Limited?: Two Sides of a National Question Pro: Rep. Harley O. Staggers (D-W. Va.) Con: Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. (R-Tenn.) -- Life on the Western Wagon Trails: Between 1840 and 1860, Thousands of Pioneer Families Hitched Up Their Wagons and Made the Giant Trek West, a Migration Unparalleled in American History by Lynwood Mark Rhodes -- Letters to the Editor -- Dateline Washington -- Veterans Newsletter -- News of the American Legion -- Personal -- Legion Shopper -- Parting Shots