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...organizations generally have far more volunteers to get the job done than the G.O.P. could muster in 1960. Nowhere are these torrid troops used more effectively than in the South, where Republican organizations are now far more efficient than the long-complacent Democratic groups there. In New Orleans, Texan LeRoy Ellis, 29, plots Goldwater strategy for Louisiana in a "war room" covered with 13 maps pegging population growth and political patterns in every parish. His precinct workers have assembled 600,000 IBM cards containing the name and address of every Louisiana urban voter, all of whom will be reached this...
...LEROY TREVATHAN Cleveland...
...should the director be? Ideally, he ought to be someone acceptable to the South with a good record on integration. Such men are hard to find, and President Johnson was perplexed. Then Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, an ex-Governor of North Carolina, suggested LeRoy Collins, 55, an ex-Governor of Florida. During six years in office (1955-60) in Tallahassee, his native city, Collins had talked a fair-to-middlin' civil rights game while doing little to implement...
Some Soothers. Lyndon liked Luther's idea, and so did LeRoy-up to a point. Trouble was, the director of the Community Relations Service will receive only $22,500 a year, while Collins, as president of the National Association of Broadcasters since 1961, has been getting $75,000 in annual salary plus a $12,500-a-year living allowance. Loath to give up such a job, Collins suggested that he merely take a year's leave of absence from the N.A.B., with some compensatory financial arrangement. As it happens, Collins has not been a particularly popular N.A.B. president...
...equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling booths, in the classroom, in the factories, and in hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, and other places that provide service to the public." To help communities over hurdles in implementing the new law, Johnson said, he was naming LeRoy Collins, former Florida Governor and now president of the National Association of Broadcasters, to head the Community Relations Service established by the bill...