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...into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will -and this is clearly one of them...
...years past, Lyndon Johnson's presidential messages called on Congress to enact a plethora of broad, even visionary, programs. Times have changed. Beset by foreign crises and committed to holding down spending at home, the President last week sent three domestic programs to Capitol Hill spelling out segments of his State of the Union speech. The President's oratory was as resonant as ever, but it masked an anemia of fresh ideas...
...swinging too far either way--toward a totally new custodial relationship or toward a complete break in relations--there are intermediate positions that can be taken now to help solve the crisis. The most important would be to respect the authority of the new Student-Faculty Advisory Committee and enact any of its recommendations to bar recruiters...
...right degree," but he insisted that he had moved "consistently in the right direction." The trouble with the tuning machinery of the new economics, he seemed to be implying, was mostly some loose wires in Congress. Johnson asserted that "damage has already been done" by congressional failure to enact the tax surcharge. "In the next few weeks," he added, "we must demonstrate that we can raise as well as lower taxes...
...resigned in despair. Yet Mills, while generally conservative, is not one of the dwindling company of Southern obstructionists who use the committee chairmanships that devolve upon them through the encrusted traditions of seniority to block anything and everything new. A Harvard-trained lawyer and former judge, he has helped enact much liberal legislation during his 29 years in the House. On roll-call votes during the past three years, Mills backed the Administration 65% of the time, a relatively high figure for a Southern Democrat...