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...Never Such a Budget." Cannon is a proud Democrat ("It's the party to save the country"), and he thinks well of John Kennedy ("I'm strong for him"). But those emotions did not curtail his criticism of the President's budget message last January. Said Cannon to his House colleagues: "I have listened to messages from Presidents here in the House for 40 years, but in all that time I have never seen or heard a budget message like this one. And neither have you. Nor has anyone else...
...provide such essential services as education and public health. It cannot unjustly prevent man's effort to better his lot in life: "State activity in the economic field, no matter what its breadth or depth may be, ought not to be exercised in such a way as to curtail an individual's freedom of personal initiative." There is no single "most suitable form of government," but natural law requires of any political system "that government officials be chosen in conformity with constitutional procedures and perform their specific functions within the limits...
...their own discretion. But Powell was told that $150,000 must be allocated in equal shares to six subcommittees, whose chairmen would supervise its spending. Thus Powell himself could control only a piddling $50,000, which would hardly keep him in swimsuits. If nothing else, the cutback would surely curtail a mysterious "committee investigative task force" that operates out of a downtown federal building in Washington on projects so secret that only Powell seems to know what they are. He had requested $101,000 for this force alone...
...might also have added that the presence of only a single "pool" newsman, capable of taking only so many notes and absorbing only so many impressions, could result in the dismissal of a good story with an inadequate report. It could also severely curtail the flow of information to a "legitimately interested public...
Space limitations force me, unwillingly, to curtail discussion of all these various pieces, and I can only discuss, in the inches that remain, a few of the best tesserae...