Word: funds
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...into the future. Lyndon Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable and secure existence." Only then, he added, can they "count upon the friendly help of the United States." Said the President earlier in the week: "To day in the Middle East...
...forger and a thief." Moreover, Dodd declared, if the Senate really believed one of its members guilty of larceny, it should expel him outright rather than censure him. It was a shrewd challenge. At week's end the Senate agreed to vote separately on the billing and campaign-fund counts...
Lacerated Arguments. Dodd made little headway against the campaign-fund charge. It has been his contention all along that seven testimonial social functions held for his benefit between 1961 and 1965 yielded personal, tax-free gifts for use at his discretion, not campaign contributions that had to be spent for political purposes. Dodd clung to his story, conceding only that he spent just $3,100 out of other contributions, again by error rather than design. But Stennis and Utah's Wallace Bennett, the ranking Republican on the ethics committee, repeatedly lacerated his arguments, some of which glossed over...
...stipulation showed that Dodd fund raisers, in written solicitations for two of the testimonial affairs, emphasized the Senator's campaign needs and made no mention of his personal finances. It showed, too, that the Democratic National Committee got $7,500 from one of the dinners "for providing the Vice President [Hubert Humphrey] as speaker." Also, Dodd admitted the accuracy of a newspaper report that quoted a 1963 letter to Lyndon Johnson in which Dodd thanked the then Vice President for agreeing to appear at a daylong round of testimonials "to assist me in my forthcoming campaign." Dodd insisted that...
...graduate of the Howard University Law School, Marshall captained the long-drawn legal battle for equal rights during his 23 years as counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, winning all but three. His most famous victory was the court's 1954 ruling that segregated schools are in violation of the 14th Amendment. Named a federal circuit judge by John Kennedy, Marshall became the nation's first Negro Solicitor General two years...