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Voting on the form of the Combined Charities pledge cards, the Council ratified the proposal submitted by co-chairmen Michael N. Butler '57 and Gregory B. Stone '58, which put PBH, the Salzburg Seminar, American Field Service, and World University Service on the suggested list...
...Tory Randolph Churchill, it was clear that Eden, like the Suez forces, was planning a "phased withdrawal" from politics. But the lack of an undisputed successor in the true-blue Tory line made this difficult at the moment: the closest rivals were the acting Prime Minister, Richard A. Butler, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan-Rab Butler's claims to be first in line could not be lightly set aside, but some of the Tories most desirous of a change did not want to change to him, and it was to Butler's interest to keep Eden...
...quiet all the talk of change, No. 10 Downing Street declared that Eden would return from Jamaica this week and had no intention of resigning. The reins of government, said Rab Butler, would be "handed back" to Eden immediately, adding with a characteristic nuance that Eden "would wish to face the music...
Johnson and Sam Rayburn have declined to serve on the "20-man" Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
Last week the Executive Committee of the National Committee authorized National Chairman Paul H. Butler to appoint the group, in response to pressure from big-city leaders who felt that the party was losing ground in its traditionally strong areas. They maintained that only by pushing a vigorous legislative program in Congress could the party regain this support. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson has opposed this course, contending that the Democrats should offer no program until President Eisenhower has produced one, which they might then seek to change or replace...