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...Things I Never Saw." In a similar way, President Johnson went to work in an attempt to speed legislative action on the civil rights bill, presently held up by the House Rules Committee under the reactionary chairmanship of Virginia's Democratic Representative Howard Smith. Even as a petition for bypassing the Rules Committee was being prepared, the President one morning drove past the Spring Valley home of House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck, took him to the White House for breakfast. The meal included what Halleck called "thick bacon-the kind he knew a fellow from Indiana would like." Halleck...
Being Vice President, Johnson automatically became a member of the National Security Council and head of the National Aeronautics and Space Council. He also sat in at Cabinet meetings. Kennedy beefed up the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and put it under Johnson's chairmanship. Lyndon also became Kennedy's sometime emissary overseas. In 1961 he went to Southeast Asia, continued around the world. Later that year he was rushed to Berlin when The Wall went up. In 1962 he barnstormed through the Middle East, struck up his famous friendship with Bashir Ahmad, the camel...
...Asian-Latin American alliance, Mao Tse-tung will not be around to see the result. At 69, Mao now needs help in walking. He disappears for long stretches, reportedly to meditate in his navilion facing lovely West Lake in Hangchow. No one really knows why he gave up the Chairmanship of the government in 1958 after...
...Executive Committee and vice chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Glenn G. Wolfe, director of the State Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music President John Brownlee. Panels of experts make the artistic choices and the State Department settles for arranging the tours...
...range for individuals is higher than the 14%-65% that the Kennedy Administration had originally asked for. But Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon appeared before Ways and Means early last week, approved of the committee change. The smaller reductions, Dillon felt, were necessary because the committee, under the chairmanship of Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, had already dumped many other Administration proposals aimed at increasing tax revenues...