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Nowadays the radicals of the left as well as the right reflexively condemn the Federal Government for its size, remoteness and unresponsiveness. Between the extremes, there has been a gradual shift toward the view that while a strong central government alone can oversee such programs as space, defense and interstate highways, local problems can be more responsively and responsibly handled by cities or counties or states. Most liberals still feel that a strong Federal Government is essential when it comes to world issues, as well as education, jobs and housing, and doubt that local governments can be trusted to ensure...
...unmerciful to condemn millions to wretchedness," said President Johnson in an eleventh-hour plea to save his foreign aid authorization. "It is madness to so jeopardize our own security and the orderly progression of the world." But House members had al ready unsheathed their sharpest knives and, in a callously contrived show of economy, hacked the aid authorization to bare bones. The modest $2.9 billion Administration request, smallest in the aid program's 21-year history, was cut by nearly $ 1 billion before being passed by a 228-to-184 vote...
This year, the whole un-system is being put to question by the critics of the "old politics," mostly Eugene McCarthy's dissidents, the now leaderless forces of Robert Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller's supporters. They condemn it, sometimes indiscriminately, as an outworn relic of bossism and a negation of the popular will. Since the delegates to the national conventions do not directly represent the voters, runs the simplest argument, the conventions conducted by the parties do not really pick candidates who are the people's choice...
...majority, but they have been just as ruthless as their opponents in invoking the unit rule when it worked in their favor. While the new politics of McCarthy has a refreshing directness, his followers have yet to establish that they themselves are above the petty manipulations that they condemn...
...with sickness. Then, last week, after the first wave of dismay had passed, the press began to have some sober second thoughts. McGinniss' own paper, in fact, took him to task in an editorial for "responding immaturely and emotionally to the overwhelming horror of the moment. We vigorously condemn his blasphemy of America...