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They will meet with presidential advisor Henry Kissinger, Undersecretary of State Eliot Richardson, possibly Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, and a long list of Senators and Congresmen...
...race prejudice but conformity" is the problem. "If you speak out, you're afraid that someone will question your Southernness." The Brown Decision in 1954 elicited a moderate reaction even from traditional Southerners, but no Southern leaders called for obedience to the law. Governers, senators, and congresmen by their silence allowed the White Citizens Councils, "outside agitators from Mississippi," to enter, and the Councils did not remain silent. The politicians followed their lead...
...Senatorial filibuster, because it was felt that an attack on these institutions would kill whatever chance of Congressional acceptance he reform proposals night have. The report, however, does advocate another hotly, debated innovation--creation of a legislative-executive cabinet. Sitting in this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative-Executive Council, whose function would be to resolve the perennial conflict between...
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