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...years in Congress-in particular, an adroitness at backstage maneuvering and a devout belief in secrecy and surprise. But what may be assets on the Hill have proved to be liabilities in the White House, and Johnson's lingering image as the crafty manipulator has done him immense harm. Many Americans seem convinced, as one observer of the presidency has written, that Johnson is a man who believes that "the shortest distance be tween two points is through a tunnel...
...turn around and leave." Speaking after Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington had urged a bombing pause in the North and a cease-fire in the South as a means of testing Hanoi's intentions, Kuchel warned that a suspension of the air war now "would result in grievous harm to our men fighting at Con Thien and Gio Linh" as well as other points near the Demilitarized Zone...
...them have been demonstrated to have done grave injury to the persons using them, in some cases to their offspring, and in some cases to third persons who are in the area where the users drive automobiles or otherwise are in control of instrumentalities capable of inflicting harm...
...social value of deterring crimes against oneself is more debatable - especially when there is no proof that the outlawed conduct causes harm. Most lawyers agree, therefore, that laws prohibiting private acts such as drinking are an unnecessary and unwarranted restraint on individual freedom, and little more than an attempt to legislate morality. Now that argument-and others -is being used in a major attack on federal and state laws against marijuana...
...Oteri, pot is not really dangerous at all, and he introduced a series of expert witnesses to back up his contention. Almost everyone is now agreed that marijuana is neither a true narcotic nor addictive, but Oteri's experts went further. They absolved pot of causing practically any harm...