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...Political Salesman." The President was determined not to ire voters by calling for a deflationary, across-the-board tax hike. Yet all through the second session, Johnson kept urging the Congress to keep his domestic programs at low price levels. To many members, his pleas smacked of election-year politicking, but when the final dollar total for programs passed over both sessions was added up, the 89th had actually allocated $3.3 billion less than the President had requested. For the two years, the 89th had appropriated just under $264 billion, an alltime record...
Making a supposedly "nonpolitical" speech before a crowd of 20,000 at Social Security headquarters near Baltimore, the President outlined a cannily timed proposal for across-the-board boosts of "at least 10%" for all 22 million Social Security beneficiaries. Sharing a platform with local party bigwigs (notably absent: Open-Housing Foe George P. Mahoney, Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial nominee), the President chose a curious way to scold the Republicans - by pinning on them the Democratic Party symbol. "Any donkey can kick down a barn," he said, "but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one. There...
...meeting not only settled the biggest outstanding problem among the Six, but it also removed the most important obstacle to the significant Kennedy Round talks at Geneva, which are supposed to negotiate worldwide across-the-board tariff cuts. These tariff conferences could not begin until the Common Market countries settled their own farm policies...
...spending but is not doing so itself. "It's not cricket," says he, "to have business act in a fiscally responsible manner and not the Government." Banker David Rockefeller last week called not only for federal budget reduction but for a quick enactment of "limited and temporary, across-the-board increases in personal and corporate taxes...
...logical way to fight inflation is to put through a simple, clean-cut, across-the-board increase in taxes that would be both temporary and moderate...