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...whether there was any way to "get around" the First Amendment in order to prosecute "the Carmichaels and the Kings" for urging defiance of the draft. When he was told that there was not, Hébert impatiently cried: "Let's forget the First Amendment!" Mendel Rivers enthusiastically supported him, and chimed in with a few unilluminating comments of his own. "There are only two ideologies in the world," he said at one point. "One is represented by Jesus Christ and the other by the hammer and the sickle...
...Senate Armed Services Committee has already taken the position that undergraduate deferments should not be retained, contrary to the Commission's wishes. And the draft legislation that emerges from the House committee, if Chairman L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S.C.) has his way, will block the creation of a lottery for 19-year-olds...
...burned in the Central Park Sheep Meadow by overardent symbolists, city police scrutinized thousands of photographs in search of identifiable flag razers, each of whom, if convicted, would have to pay a $50 state fine for touching off Old Glory. In Washington, South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers introduced a bill that would make desecration of the American flag a federal offense punishable by five years in prison and a fine...
South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, whose House Armed Services Committee will write the legislation, at first seemed opposed to the President's program, in particular to the lottery idea, which under present circumstances would become a form of Viet Nam roulette. Rivers had employed his own advisory panel, which flatly rejected any system of random selection, and the chairman apparently differed with the President on other points as well...
Congressmen on the other side of the debate were equally vociferous. South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, called on the Administration to blast Hanoi off the map. Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, accused Lyndon Johnson of conduct "almost unseemly for the President of the U.S." for having "fluttered around" with peace feelers...