Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member House of Delegates refused to denounce the Administration's plan to end discrimination in Federal Courts after hearing Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach defend the plan...
...Katzenbach argued that the current selection system confronts him with a "massive problem" because it does not produce the fair cross-section of the community that the Supreme Court requires...
Legislators hope to get a regulatory law on the books before long. Attorney General Katzenbach favors a law that would allow supervised police wiretapping and bugging, but concedes it would be better to outlaw the practice altogether (except for national security purposes) than to continue the present confused situation. The wider dilemma is much harder to cope with: how to preserve privacy not only against the outer thrust of modern life but the inner fear of solitude...
...piece of opportunism," he wondered aloud "what tortures those souls have gone through to come up with that!" There seemed to be no way, in fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...
...Katzenbach admitted that G.O.P. support is essential. Dirksen, however, said that he could see no way in which the housing provision could be rewritten to his satisfaction and "still get the effect they want." There were suspicions, of course, that Dirksen's dubiety did not wholly reflect constitutional qualms. The G.O.P. would dearly like to see the Democrats ride into November's congressional election in the embarrassing position of having angered whites by proposing the fair-housing provision-and disappointed Negroes by failing to pass...