Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue, of course, is the proper balance between the President and the Congress-a constitutional question as old as the Republic. In testimony before the committee, Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach contended without dispute that two-year terms force most Representatives to campaign year-round, to the neglect of their legislative duties. No one denied his argument that two years is hardly time enough to gain background for the deluge of bills-11,856 in 1965 alone-that demand a Representative's consideration...
...Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just tucked the letter into his pocket. That was too much for committee members who wanted a clarifying bill. One morning when Patman was away, a rump majority secretly met and defiantly approved a bill strengthening...
...three-year sentence for his 1949 conviction, jumped bail, was recaptured and sentenced to an additional four years. In all, he spent five years and one month in prison. With Thompson's ashes already at Arlington awaiting burial this week, the Army asked U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to rule on the problem...
...page letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, Katzenbach found Thompson's prison record "disqualifying" under the regulation. Katzenbach's ruling was cheered by veterans' organizations and hissed by word warriors of the left. Said Florida's Democratic Representative Charles Bennett, who had taken the House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson...
...court is expected to hand down a ruling in ample time for the South's spring primaries. Meanwhile, one of the most succinct arguments in support of the law came not from Katzenbach but from Associate Justice Hugo Black, a native of Alabama. Said Black from the bench: "It's politically known to everybody in the country that these tests have been used to deny people their right to vote...