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...Years later, when the U.S. budget had mushroomed to 25 times its pre-Roosevelt size, Senator Byrd noted wryly: "I campaigned for the New Deal platform in 1932-and I'm still standing on it." Roosevelt and Byrd quickly became enemies; F.D.R. even tried to pre-empt all federal patronage in Virginia in a conspicuously unsuccessful effort to undercut the Senator at home. Byrd never again endorsed a Democratic presidential nominee. By maintaining a "golden silence," he helped Republicans carry the Old Dominion in every presidential election from 1952 until the Johnson landslide...
...that, he has not been seriously discussed for national office. One reason is that Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a fellow liberal, has managed to pre-empt the title of Mr. Republican in New York, and in 1960 and 1964 tried his best to get the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Javits had little choice but to support Rockefeller's White House aspirations. The Senator will be 62 next week; 1968 will be his last chance. Last week he completed an elaborate minuet whose burden was Javits for Vice President...
Only a few years ago, requiems were being performed over the retail book trade in the U.S. Time-consuming TV and the faster pace of modern life, feared the booksellers, would pre-empt serious reading. The book clubs with their vast mail-order lists and, most of all, the price-cutting discount houses were challenging the conventional bookstore. Leonard Schwartz, president of Manhattan-based Brentano's, predicted that many booksellers would not survive discounting...
...decision on the John F. Kennedy library which the president will build at Harvard to house his official papers. Kennedy has reportedly been deciding between sites on Soldiers Field at the bend of the Charles River or on the Charles at Western Ave. The WGBH building may pre-empt the latter sight...
...deeply concerned with the image of our city. The facts are that there is no crime wave here and that there is no intention on the part of our neighborhood and community organizations to pre-empt the work and functions of the police, as some reports would have...