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Inside Joke. Yet Bennett, senior Republican on the Standards and Conduct Committee, which investigated Dodd and which must now draft a code, maintains that it is "a terribly difficult assignment. I'm not even sure that it's possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted...
...question of uniformity in House and Senate rules. Acting admittedly in different circumstances, the House barred Adam Clayton Powell from membership, while Dodd retains both his seat and his seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
British Prime Minister Harold Wil son has never been noted for excessive chivalry toward opponents-or subordinates. But rarely has Wilson stirred as much angry reaction among both Labor colleagues and Tory opponents as he did with his bitter attack upon the character and conduct of Colonel Leslie ("Sammy") Lohan, the civil servant in charge of governmental press relations on all questions touching national security...
...signed just a year after the President appointed a blue-ribbon commission, headed by former Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, to conduct a thorough review of the draft. The group recommended major changes, including the elimination of all student deferments, the institution of a lottery system, and the reversal of induction order to youngest first...
...Century Plaza Hotel in West Los Angeles. The morning of Johnson's speech before a $500-a-plate President's Club dinner, a three-page ad proclaimed: "As of this date, we 8,000 Democrats of Southern California are disassociating ourselves from you because of your conduct of the war in Viet...