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...scholarship program, Swarthmore is a mother lode of university presidents, among them California's Clark Kerr ('32) and Cornell's James Perkins ('34). Few colleges claim more names in Who's Who; few boast alumni so diversely successful-Novelist James Michener, U.S. Budget Director Kermit Gordon, Industrialist Thomas B. McCabe (Scott Paper), and Pitcher Dick Hall ('53), Swarthmore's gift to the Baltimore Orioles...
Thanks to the cuts in defense and agriculture, the President was able to beef up outlays for politically attractive welfare programs. As Budget Director Kermit Gordon put it, "Over the past three years we have so improved our military strength that we can direct some money to meet human and domestic needs." Total welfare requests were $7.7 billion, up $900 million, and the most heralded item was Johnson's attack on poverty. But the actual new money requested for the attack came to only $250 million...
...Cutbacks. The budget had been Johnson's chief preoccupation since taking office. On Sunday, Nov. 24, just two days after he succeeded President Kennedy, he held the first of countless conferences with Budget Director Kermit Gordon. Several days later, the White House let it be known that because of built-in spending increases-about half of them required by legislation passed last year-it would be all but impossible to get next year's budget much below $103 billion. As late as New Year's Eve, while at his Texas ranch, the President indicated to reporters that...
...Kermit Morrissey, Dean of Students at Brandeis, said last night in a message to the Student Council that "there will be no termination of the existing regulations and no time change," according to Council president Vic Hausner. A comprehensive statement on the status of the parietal regulations will be issued by Morrissey at 10:30 a.m. today...
...word was continuity. In talks with Heller, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon, the new President surveyed the economy and made some early economic decisions and readings. Among them: 1) Johnson will hold to John Kennedy's commitment to limit the increase in next year's federal spending to $3 billion or less; 2) in view of his promise of spending restraint, he will give congressional leaders an earlier-than-normal look at next year's budget-perhaps just before Christmas-to show them that he really means it; and 3) the Administration expects...