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...ability of the Democratic Study Group (an organization of liberal Congressmen) to pass a number of reforms in the Democratic caucus and in the House this January brought a good deal of attention to Congressman Bolling's House Out of Order, a book written to urge passage of similar reforms. This book was especially interesting because Bolling had never been a whole-hearted supporter of reform, and his relationship with the DSG had been a curiously ambivalent...
Most of Bolling's reform proposals are unrelated to the rest of the book. Proposals for stricter conflict-of-interest controls on Congressmen, for an Administrative People's Counsel like that in Sweden--he would do most of the Congressional "messenger boy" work--and for streamlined committee procedures are all praiseworthy. But they seem peripheral to the basic power questions with which Bolling claims to be concerned...
Next day, he abruptly summoned to the White House 200 Congressmen, members of the Senate and House committees on Appropriations, Foreign Relations and Armed Services. Reporters and television cameras covered the meeting, and the President spoke about Viet Nam. "There are those who frequently talk of negotiations and political settlement, and they believe this is the course we should pursue-and so do I," he said. "When they talk that way, I say welcome to the club. I want to negotiate. I would much rather talk than fight." Rapping the lectern with his knuckles, he demanded that Congress give...
Within 48 hours, the appropriation was approved by both houses with enormous majorities. But some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...
...tense. I don't feel as free to go out over the country. I feel like U. S. Grant used to. He said he never faced an audience where he didn't feel uneasy and quivering in his stomach. You don't stand up before 200 Congressmen like I did this morning without feeling that...