Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Branch Offices. Washington simply has too much to do. When local school officials recently beseeched him for guidance on bussing policies, Education Commissioner Harold Howe flatly-and wisely-refused to oblige them. The Federal Government, he told them, had enough to do without trying to set policies for thousands of school districts, all with purely local problems and prejudices...
...stumbling block is the general disrepair of many state and local governments. Unless they shape up-and soon-warned John Gardner, they will turn into "mere branch offices of one all-dominating national government." Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, has probed deeply into the problem, agrees. "We want to save local autonomy from what could be its own destruction," he told Indiana's legislature last week. "If state and local governments do not take effective steps to meet the urban crisis, for example, someone will have...
President Hoover's library sits in West Branch, Iowa, Eisenhower's in Abilene, Kans., Truman's in Independence, Mo., and Kennedy's will be located in Cambridge, Mass. Naturally, Lyndon B. Johnson has hankered to have the library housing his presidential papers built down by the Pedernales. But rather than make scholars beat a track to his door, Johnson will see his library go up on Austin's University of Texas campus. In fact he has already called him self "a son-in-law of the university," where his wife and daughters have been students...
...issue of the war itself, Ford backs the President, with minor reservations. "We say to the President: as long as you have a policy that's firm and forthright and steadfast against Communist aggression, we'll support you. We don't feel that we in the legislative branch in the minority party should determine strategy or tactics. I have many questions as to the need to expand our ground force commitments, especially when we have not used our air and naval superiority as adequately as I think we should. But the over-all position of strength has been good...
...minds. He retains the stocky build, the rugged appearance and vigor of his football days on the Michigan varsity. And his earnest squarely-cut brow wrinkles in disappointment at the first sign of ideological disagreement. He likes folksy, apple pie and ice cream humor (Any aspirations in the executive branch, Mr. minority leader? "Oh no fellas, my wife wouldn't let me.") When words or ideas come slow, Ford smiles man to man, and gestures with a large, chunky hand...