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That batch of back-courtroom gossip followed a story by the National Observer's Nina Totenberg reporting that the court had had its first racial incident. Justice Marshall had asked for a rescheduling of a judicial conference so that he could attend the funeral of a relative. When Chief...
Died. James F. Byrnes, 92, versatile public man who wielded great power in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations; in Columbia, S.C. Already a House and Senate veteran in the 1930s, Byrnes, though a conservative, used his influence and tactical skill to get much New Deal legislation passed for his old...
Drawing Card. Oddly enough, the chief reservations expressed in Congress came not from Democratic welfare reformers, but from Republicans. Liberals considered the bill such a paper tiger that they did not bother to campaign against it, despite denunciations from welfare groups. Nixon supporters feared that the bill would worsen the...
All of the Administration's muscle was being exerted to bring pressure on the Democratic Congress, where such powerful counter-revolutionaries as Arkansas Representative Wilbur Mills stand in Nixon's way. As chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which must pass on the revenue-sharing plan, Mills...
> Although no one will put it so bluntly in public, there is considerable disagreement over whether states and cities can be trusted to spend wisely the new money they may get. Mills, Byrnes and many others warn that if Congress hands over billions to the states and cities with no...