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...Vice President is about as valuable as a cow's fifth teat," John Nance Carner declared with some feeling over twenty years ago. Today that statement may draw a laugh but surely not acquiescence. When national magazines run features like "The President's Heart: A Blunt Appraisal," and political writers consult actuarial tables, it is not an overstatement that the selection of a Democratic Vice Presidential candidate has a critical importance...
...Laird reports that he has had more requests to be heard by witnesses who want to condemn the 1963 Supreme Court decision banning a state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools than on any other issue in contention. He considers the issue a real "sleeper." Conservatives may seek blunt criticism of the decision. Laird himself is sympathetic to the complaints, has warned: "In this world, it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous...
...Upon reading the "Cloture Roll Call," and being an absentee Colorado voter, I was amazed to find a Colorado Senator listed in the "uncommitted" column. This triggered a blunt airmail letter from me to him. I imagine that I was not alone and that senatorial mail was heavier than usual following your June 5 issue...
Only after they agree do Yale and the rest of the world hear about it-maybe. And, as Acheson put it, "we never give reasons for our decisions, merely the blunt fact of them. How vulnerable are those who explain-courts, statesmen, editors. We can say of our views, as Mr. Churchill did of his when challenged with inconsistency, 'My views are a harmonious process which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events...
...Athens, Ball conferred with Greece's Premier George Papandreou, then jetted on to Ankara where Turkey's Premier Ismet InÖnÜ was already in receipt of a blunt message from President Johnson asking him to cancel at once any decision to land Turkish troops on Cyprus. Ball warned both leaders that the U.S. is tired of having to prevent local wars at the last minute. The knocking of heads together had a seemingly pacific result. At week's end, Inonu accepted an invitation to come to Washington next week for talks with Johnson, and Papandreou...