Word: johnsons
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Last week, as Senate Republicans chose a moderate new leader by electing Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott as minority whip, the young Turks of the Democratic Party joined in open revolt against their hierarchical chieftains. Rejecting the Eisenhower-Johnson concept of consensus, they demanded younger, more aggressive leadership and distinctively Democratic programs to revivify the party's claim to national leadership in the years to come. At stake were many political fortunes, young and old, and the relationship that the predominantly Democratic 91st Congress will have with the Nixon Administration...
There was also a kind of poetic symbolism in Ted Kennedy's first real foray into national politics. It was Jack Kennedy's assassination that brought Lyndon Johnson to power. Bobby Kennedy's energetic campaign helped persuade many restive Americans that the old order might, after all, be redeemable. In the dying days of a Democratic Administration, the last of the clan rekindled a beacon of courage and change-one that should certainly brighten his party and the Senate and may yet achieve the full promise of a haunted dynasty...
...overall Johnson budget for the fiscal year beginning July1 will total about $192 billion, up $7.6 billion over the current year. This presumes a halving of the income tax surcharge to 5%, a proposal that Richard Nixon is understood to have accepted, if somewhat reluctantly. This would allow for funding urban programs at roughly their current levels-again dissatisfying to both liberals and conservatives. It would, however, permit an increase in the military budget of $4.9 billion (to $78.5 billion), which is less than the service chiefs and their partisans on Capitol Hill want. House Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers...
...professional expertise in State's top echelons will come from Career Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, 60, who is currently serving in Tokyo. In 33 years as a foreign-service officer, Johnson has also been assigned to Korea, China, Manchuria, Brazil, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Thailand and Viet Nam. He will be the No. 3 man, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Johnson's appointment was particularly popular with career foreign-service officers, whose Foreign Service Association recently recommended that the No. 3 job go to a professional diplomat. Nixon also announced that he would ask Ellsworth Bunker...
Undersecretary of the housing agency since 1965, Wood was named to President Johnson's cabinet last week after Robert C. Weaver resigned to become president of Baruch College in New York...