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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...
...Murphy Revisited. On the contrary, argued U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach before a House Judiciary Subcommittee, "the construction of homes and apartment buildings, the production and sale of building materials and home furnishings, the financing of construction and purchase all take place in or through the channels of interstate commerce." Maintaining that the housing-discrimination provision fell under the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equal protection of the laws, Katzenbach said that this amendment also sanctions the desegregation of residential areas...
...rent to Negroes, the Attorney General predicted widespread compliance comparable to that achieved under the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He conceded that the Administration would not object to a "Mrs. Murphy clause"* exempting owners occupying small houses from any compulsion to rent to Negroes. Katzenbach emphasized nonetheless: "The ending of compulsory residential segregation has become a national necessity. Law must lead and law must protect in this vital area." Congress, he suggested, must now "address itself to the vindication of what is, in substance, the freedom to live...
...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...