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Three things helped turn the tide. One was Johnson's success in convincing Congress that he had really eliminated all the fat. Another was the death in April of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon, who had always encouraged Passman...
Cannon's successor was Texas Demo crat George Mahon, who has voted against aid only once in his 30-year congressional career. The third was the performance of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in preliminary hearings before Passman's subcommittee...
McNamara faced Passman in March, but the full text of his testimony was not made public until last week. He was in a determined mood. Last year he requested $1.4 billion in military aid, got only $1 billion. This year he started out with a barebones $1 billion request and was bent on getting every penny. Whenever Passman slipped a questionable fact into his long, loaded questions, McNamara cut in, requested permission to "clarify" the record. In a typical exchange involving the adequacy of military assistance to Greece and Turkey, McNamara snapped, "There is absolutely no question but what...
...year history of foreign aid that the committee had voted to give a President all he asked for. But Johnson wasn't home free. Still to come was the foreign aid appropriations bill, which would no doubt feel the paring knife of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, champion dasher of Presidential foreign aid hopes...
Johnson should make the necessity for foreign aid a basic part of the foreign policy program which will play a large part in his campaign. Instead of patting Otto Passman on the back, he should call his bluff. In the same television press conference in which he conceded that foreign aid would have a rough going this year, Johnson lashed out at those who thought all international problems could be solved by "mashing a button." These same people are opposing the AID program, and they should be attacked with equal energy...