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...Johnson proposal would provide for staggered elections, with half the House members running every two years. But even this would increase the President's influence on the House by assuring four-year terms for those of his party carried in with him. As it is, argues Historian James MacGregor Burns, economic and technological change have made the presidency a "super-office," with unprecedented powers. In Presidential Government: The Crucible of Leadership, published last week, Burns notes that the President's executive staff has grown to more than 1,500, while the White House is "a round-the-clock...
...change the nature of the House in the long run. Members would probably tend to become more closely identified with the program of their party's Presidential candidates and to become more dependent on their success. There would be a slow, gradual tendency for the gap between what James MacGregor Burns has called the Presidential and the Congress branches of the two parties to narrow...
Little Shudder. Schlesinger believes in the "confusion theory" of history as opposed to the "conspiracy theory." According to Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns, the conspiracy theory holds that "if something happened, somebody planned it." Schlesinger, on the other hand, believes in "the role of chance and contingency, the sheer intricacy of situations, the murk of battle." Schlesinger is also scornful of the "prophetic" historians-Marx, Spengler, Toynbee-who use "one big hypothesis to explain a variety of small things." Says he: "They" have reduced the chaos of history to a single order of explanation, which can infallibly penetrate the mysteries...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A critical evaluation of L.B.J. by men close to his four predecessors: Kennedy Biographer James MacGregor Burns, Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, Truman Economist Leon Keyserling, and Roosevelt Brain-Truster Thomas Corcoran...
Debate was scant, since there was virtually unanimous agreement as to the wisdom of having federal jurisdiction over crimes against the President. Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor reminded the House that FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover told the Warren Commission that if Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been held by the FBI instead of the Dallas cops, "I do not believe he would have been killed by Ruby...