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Though Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach had sent in 350 federal observers to guard against last-ditch attempts by white men to keep Negroes from voting, no serious incidents had been reported at week's end. "People voted freely and comfortably," said Katzenbach. "This reflects great credit on all the people involved...
...Ordered Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach to direct a "renewed drive" against organized crime, which, Johnson said, "constitutes one of the most serious threats to a peaceful and prosperous society...
...more than two hours before releasing the bill, the President, together with Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, went over it with a group of Negro leaders. Among them was Martin Luther King, who left shortly afterward for a barnstorming tour of Alabama, where he urged Negroes to vote as a bloc in this week's Democratic primary-in which, thanks to the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills, their ballots had become a major factor...
However clear the failures of Southern justice, it is far from clear what should be done about them without weakening the nation's legal structure. Certainly no one wants to destroy the jury system in order to correct its abuses. After the Hayneville acquittal, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it's too high a price. The situation has changed a great deal already...
William S. Barus '67, temporary chairman, explained that the club is being formed to protest Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's demand that the national DuBois Club register as a Communist-front organization. "The DuBois Club must not be the first of a string of dissent organizations to dissolve simply at the mention of the McCarran Act" Barus said...