Word: debs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majestic piece of opportunism," he wondered aloud "what tortures those souls have gone through to come up with that!" There seemed to be no way, in fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...
...Ordered Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach to direct a "renewed drive" against organized crime, which, Johnson said, "constitutes one of the most serious threats to a peaceful and prosperous society...
William S. Barus '67, temporary chairman, explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said...
...issue, of course, is the proper balance between the President and the Congress-a constitutional question as old as the Republic. In testimony before the committee, Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach contended without dispute that two-year terms force most Representatives to campaign year-round, to the neglect of their legislative duties. No one denied his argument that two years is hardly time enough to gain background for the deluge of bills-11,856 in 1965 alone-that demand a Representative's consideration...
...Wright Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just tucked the letter into his pocket. That was too much for committee members who wanted a clarifying bill. One morning when Patman was away, a rump majority secretly met and defiantly approved a bill strengthening...