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Rousing this chorus of commentary last week was a three-page discussion draft prepared by White House aides as a possible addition to Executive Order No. 11246, issued by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The measure has been denounced for creating a legal and social nightmare and praised as one of the most important tools for ending discrimination in the U.S. It requires firms that do business with the Federal Government to take "affirmative action" to eliminate racial bias in employment. To enforce the order, the Labor Department in 1968 began requiring that contractors set numerical goals for blacks, other...
...this hot August morning, the Capitol has been abandoned by the congressional combatants. The route to Majority Leader Robert Dole's office is uncrowded and cool, and the stone busts of Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson whisper from the shadows about great ambitions achieved and denied...
DIED. Walter Wilson Jenkins, 67, hard-working, self-effacing special assistant and close friend to Lyndon Johnson until his resignation three weeks before the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, following his arrest on a morals charge; of complications from a stroke; in Austin. Jenkins was accused of homosexual behavior in a Washington YMCA. Forfeiting bond, he did not appear in court to face the charge against him, and left politics, later becoming a management consultant and operator of an Austin cable construction company...
...G.O.P. hopes that this year's elections will cut into the majority party's 34-16 predominance in state capitals. Former Journalist Bernard Kalb quits his post as State Department spokesman over the Administration's reported "disinformation" scheme. Followers of Right-Wing Extremist Lyndon LaRouche are indicted for credit-card scams in a "fund-raising" campaign...
DIED. J.J. (JAKE) PICKLE, 91, legendary 15-term U.S. Representative from Texas' 10th District, beloved for his wry wit (he passed out plastic pickles on the campaign trail), ready handshake and ability to remember the name of every constituent he met; in Austin, Texas. A former aide to Lyndon B. Johnson who was elected to his boss's old congressional seat in 1963, Pickle helped legislate major reforms to Social Security, pension...