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...fourth district seat vacated by the retirement of Charles Griffin. The district, 12 counties in southwest Mississippi, has about 202,000 voters, a third of them black. It contains Hinds County, site of the state capital and home of 40 per cent of the district's voters, and Jefferson County, political stronghold of Charles Evers...
...idea that the black vote is a monolith that can be delivered by a few leaders isn't true now, if it ever was. For example, we had the endorsement of Charles Evers, and we had many blacks working actively in the campaign. Yet we didn't carry Jefferson County, Ever's home. We were confident his endorsement would carry it for us, and we didn't work there. In the end, that might have cost us the election...
...national crisis where he must end the war, by whatever means, and arrest the growth of monstrous Government, fed by the ineptitude and the casual spending of Congress. But putting the presidency all together, from Izod outfits to the Paris peace talks, is an art form, as Thomas Jefferson explained. Not so long ago they used to practice that art in this city. Harry Truman, with all his independence and gutsiness, went through exhaustive consultations with Pentagon and State Department officials, down to the third levels of authority, before he committed forces to Korea. Alben Barkley, the mellow Kentuckian Senator...
...some long-haired rock musicians are playing on the Flip Wilson show TV didn't used to be like this: you rarely saw long-haired musician and there were some bands who were never on TV the good ones. I was the type who got excited the first time Jefferson Airplane played Ed Sullivan with Grace slick in blackface. But I was a little sorry too. You couldn't hear the music right over TV; and you guessed they just did it for money. And there were certain bands expected to stay away from TV, to scorn the commercial networks...
IMPOUNDING. There is no more direct challenge to congressional power than Nixon's refusal to spend money Congress has appropriated. This issue apparently is headed for a momentous collision in the courts. Presidents have refused to spend funds in the past as far back as Thomas Jefferson, who withheld some $50,000 that had been authorized for gunboats to patrol the Mississippi River. But this was generally done then because the need had passed or a project cost less than had been expected. Nixon has used this device as an expanded veto power, impounding some $6 billion in water...