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...makes committee assignments. At this point, Byrd, who steadfastly opposes medicare and the Kennedy tax program, let conservative Senators know that he considered the packing plan a personal affront. One of his calls went to his good friend Richard Russell of Georgia, who predictably viewed the plan as an outright assault upon the traditions of the Senate and upon his Southern colleague. On such issues, Russell can usually deliver the entire Southern conservative vote. Nearly all of the Republican Senators could be expected to oppose the plan...
...letter printed Feb. 8, concerning the "Negro (White) Problem" was disturbing for its accuracy more than its bitterness. The author was right, of course: failure in American race relations lies with the liberal as well as the apathetic, or outright racist. The latter acts for the satisfaction of setting one self above another. The former is motivated, as pointed out, not by a felt sense of equality, but rather by the need to assuage conscience, to fulfill an externally imposes self-image of virtue. Missing in both attitudes, of course, is genuine respect for the Negro as a man. Furthermore...
...Harold Wilson, 46, last week won an unexpectedly handsome lead over his two opponents. He got 115 votes; Gaitskell's deputy, Acting Leader George Brown, an early favorite, got 88; and a third candidate, James Callaghan, who was automatically eliminated, got 41. Only eight votes short of the outright majority needed for victory on the first ballot, Wilson became an odds-on favorite to defeat Brown in this week's runoff...
Senator Anderson's proposal to modify the rule on cloture, by reducing the majority needed to end debate from two-thirds to three-fifths, has failed. From the start the proposal received remarkably unaggressive support from the liberals who sponsored it. They, and the outright opponents of the change, failed to recognize two things: first, that a government, though imperfect cannot afford to hamstring itself; second, that proper legislation is a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for effective civil rights...
...years the U.S. has been accustomed to lead the free world, and in that time Western Europe rose from the ashes behind a shield of U.S. men and money. France itself has received $9.5 billion in outright aid and $1.8 billion in loans since 1945. There have of course been disputes and differences of opinion, but until last week, no direct challenge of U.S. leadership. What the U.S. now faced was a proposal that Europe rally round France to create a third force in the world capable of dealing independently with both the U.S. and Russia. This had been...