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...named Judith Campbell Exner at a time when she also had, in her words, a "close, personal" relationship with President John F. Kennedy. The committee, trying to determine if Kennedy had known about the CIA's plans to eliminate Castro, wondered if Exner might have told the Pre ident about the activities of Roselli and Giancana. The investigation turned up no evidence that...
...demand for controls was very ev ident last week. The Senate defeated a move by liberal Democrats to give the President power to reinstitute wage-price restraints for another year. It gave preliminary approval - by only a 44-to-41 vote - to a much more limited measure granting authority to reimpose controls on companies that violate formal price-restraint agreements. But even that proposal must still get final approval in the Senate and then the House, where it faces strong opposition. AFL-CIO President George Meany and other union leaders are putting heavy pressure on Democrats to kill all controls...
Their special joy was intoning "the President wants ..." That was enough to persuade many doubters. Another line that gained currency was "I have a mandate from the Pres ident ..." What that meant nobody really knew, but it sounded authoritative. In case of defiance, the talk sometimes got rougher. One Nixon aide heard Ehrlichman bark: "If he won't do it, fire him." Another venomous official told doubtful minions: "Remember, you are all serving at my pleasure...
...remember the midi just like the Alamo and they aren't going to repeat old mistakes." Griped Norman Wechsler of Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident of the Sakowitz store in Houston, agreed: "I can't and I won't stand for another bat tle of the hemlines." But by week's end, most buyers had convinced themselves that things might turn out all right. Many of the styles did expose part...
Regular Veterans Day observances in cities and small towns across the country were turned into support-the-Pres-ident demonstrations. In Birmingham, the observance lasted two days and produced the biggest outpouring of any demonstration in the city's memory. Activities there included a patriotic Roman Catholic Mass, a night rally and a three-mile parade that attracted 41 bands. In Pittsburgh, hundreds of spectators shouting "Hey! Hey! U.S.A.!" joined the line of march. At Phoenix Christian High School, students, alumni, teachers and assorted guests joined in a "run for God and country." For 48 hours, participants trotted around...