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Needs of the Elderly. With its current president, Iowa's Dr. Donovan F. Ward, and President-elect Appel as its chief spokesmen, the A.M.A. will continue to oppose, with one voice, President Johnson's plan to finance medical care for the aged under social security. Knowing that the medicare fight will come to a climax in the next Congress, the A.M.A. decided to hold a 50-state war council next week in Chicago and to appropriate a multimillion dollar campaign fund...
...Enough Negativism." Smylie's own statement came in a speech last week opening a Denver meeting of the Republican Governors' Association. Of the Governors and Governors-elect who attended, virtually all had opposed Goldwater's nomination, and virtually all would like to see Dean Burch resign. As the Governors convened, there were reports that they would adopt a formal oust-Burch resolution...
Many Governors feared that such a resolution would only serve to dramatize the divisions within the G.O.P. "There's already enough negativism in the party," said Oregon's Mark Hatfield. "I don't think it's a problem of ours," said Massachusetts' Governor-elect John Volpe. Washington's promising young Governor-elect Daniel Evans warned against Republicans who "insist on tagging labels such as 'liberal,' 'moderate,' 'conservative,' and 'kook' on each party member," and who want to "purge those within the party who disagree...
...governors and governors-elect, seeking to put the party back on the winning track, agreed to take under study a reorganization of the national committee...
Humphrey has suffered other disappointments. He had been tentatively selected as head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Gustavo Diaz Ordaz this month. But Senator Mike Mansfield complained that, as the President's legislative leader, he needed the assignment to demonstrate his high standing with the Administration. That made sense to Johnson; he canceled Humphrey's appointment and put Mansfield in his place...