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...lead was piling up on election night, Senator-elect Proxmire, already packing his bag, telephoned Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who was celebrating his 49th birthday, and made a statement that no Democrat or Republican in Washington would challenge. "Senator Johnson." he said, "I've got the biggest birthday present...
...idea of decentralizing government had been broached by President Eisenhower in a speech last month to the 49th annual conference of governors. Many of the governors yawned and thought they would hear no more of it. But Ike put his best team to work in Washington, peppered the governors' committee with plans and suggestions aimed at reaching a workable if not dramatic program of action. Last week Anderson & Co. were ready with facts and figures, and Anderson quickly ticked off six simple obligations that the U.S. is willing to turn over to the states next year...
...hear them tell about it back home, nothing is more odious to the governors of the several states than the concentration of power in Washington. But last week, gathered at historic Williamsburg, Va. for the 49th annual Governors' Conference, they heard President Eisenhower propose that the Federal Government should relinquish some of its responsibilities in favor of the states. The governors reacted as though he were trying to hand them a sockful of scorpions...
Next day from General Walsh's brassbound ranks emerged two dissenters. The 49th (California) Division's retired artillery commander, Major General John W. Guerard, 50, a peacetime lawyer and XXIV Corps South Pacific veteran, upheld the Army viewpoint. He observed that "the day has gone when any lunkhead could have a rifle shoved in his hands and some officer would march out in front and wave a saber and say 'Charge...
More damaging to the Guard's official stand was the 49th's commander. Major General Roy A. Green, 59, a dentist on the outside, who stood before the subcommittee while he blasted eleven weeks' training as "absolutely inadequate." In his own division, said Green, he accepts enlistments only if the enlistees agree to sign up for six months' training-and "we are gaining strength; we are gaining proficiency." One reason for his insistence on adequate training: as a regimental commander on Okinawa in 1945, he had taken on replacements with only six to eight weeks...