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...mayor) then clashed over an alleged bargain made at a caucus which they and the other three "independent" councillors attended prior to the election of Sullivan as mayor. Vellucci claimed that DeGuglielmo, speaking through Hayes, had agreed not to ask for public hearings on the dismissal motion. In return, none of the independents opposing the manager would call for a special meeting to speed his possible removal...
...highly controversial Man are certain to be some arguments centering on the cover itself. In his mock-heroic caricature, Artist David Levine depicted the President as King Lear, harassed by two vexatious members of his family, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Congressman Wilbur Mills, and comforted by a third, none other than his Vice President. Artist Levine, working with the editors, first thought of showing L.B.J. as a burdened Job, but he ultimately chose Shakespeare's troubled King as the best metaphor for a man beset with problems-many of which come from within his own party...
...this, as in so many other things involving this paradoxical man, the appearance belies the truth. Johnson has been a fighter in a dozen different arenas. No President has ever laid his prestige so squarely on the line in behalf of the Negro. None has tried so persistently to persuade the wealthiest nation on earth of the need to uproot poverty. None has achieved more for the advancement of education and health. If Johnson occasionally steps back emphasizing a law and order bill rather than a new package of civil rights proposals, for example his retreat is almost certainly tactical...
...Year increasingly shows signs of a readiness to move away from consensus and toward leadership. He will have to, if he is going to cope with a host of social maladies that were but dimly perceived a decade ago. Whatever his shortcomings in terms of personality and performance, none but his most relentless critics can fault his desire to cope with those problems. The greatest Presidents are those who emerged during periods of severe strain, domestic or foreign. Johnson still has a chance to stand among them...
...their returns authorizing a $1 gift for presidential candidates-the proceeds (a possible $60 million the first year) to be split equally between the major parties, with a pro-rata share for minor parties that received more than 5,000,000 votes in the previous election (none has ever done so). Last spring the Senate repealed the Long scheme, largely because dissident Democrats feared the effects of handing $30 million to the Johnsonian National Committee...