Word: labor
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...century has been denied it, however weak his record. And Lyndon Johnson's record-at least in domestic legislation-is unsurpassed by that of any other President. As for the second spot, Lyndon has pointedly reaffirmed his attachment to Humphrey. "As long as I am President," he told labor leaders at a private White House dinner, "I want Vice President Humphrey by my side." Thus Bobby has been urging overeager supporters to remove the "Kennedy in '68" billboards and bumper stickers that have sprouted from Baltimore to Berkeley; he flatly denies any such ambitions...
...which camp. Some authorities-inside the White House as well as out-got to talking one recent evening about bedrock allegiances in the Cabinet. Their remarkable conclusion was that in the showdown Bobby would ultimately command the loyalties of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean...
...present new welfare and law enforcement programs and to move somewhat to the right-notably by hedging his support for the state's open housing law. Reagan meanwhile has taken a more moderate stance on many issues, has expressed support for unemployment insurance and assured organized labor that he has long shared its opposition to right-to-work laws. He has also politely declined Barry Goldwater's offer to campaign...
Wilson is obviously aware of the futility of his sanctions. And yet he has little choice but to stick with them. He rejects the use of armed force, partly because it would be political suicide for his Labor Party at home. He is afraid to plug the holes in his economic blockade by extending the sanctions to South Africa, whose gold is a prop for the sagging British pound. At the same time, Wilson wants desperately to win in Rhodesia. He is convinced, as are many members of his government, that unless Britain can prove its good intentions, the Commonwealth...
Until last month there was not even a law against desertion. Now the Ky government has decreed that a deserter will be sentenced to five years in a labor battalion attached to a combat unit. A second offense will mean ten years, and a third death. Advance warning of the decree began last April, and the regular-army desertion rate has already begun to drop, from 24 per 1,000 men in March to twelve by the end of July. Moreover, many classified as deserters in the past had simply gone home to join the army unit closest...