Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That it already is doing. So intense is public interest in its findings that a soft-cover version published by Bantam Books is already well on its way to the bestseller lists. In what a company spokesman called "the most phenomenal sale of any book in recent years," the report sold at a clip of 100,000 volumes a day in its first three days...
More than debate, however, is needed. While adoption of the whole of the report's recommendations may be too much to expect immediately, some of its proposals, notably parts of its programs to upgrade Negro housing, education, jobs and welfare, could feasibly be enacted by Congress. As the commission warned, there is no time to lose. Ominous harbingers of summer violence were already evident last week in several cities. Windows were smashed, and a Negro boy was shot to death by police in Omaha when a speaking appearance by Alabama's George Wallace touched off two nights...
...need for action is obvious, Johnson has given no indication that he will support the commission's recommendations with the kind of presidential push needed to transform them into reality. In fact, one White House aide said that Johnson planned no new programs as a result of the report. "We've gone about as far as we could possibly go," he said. "Anything more and we wouldn't have a prayer of getting Congress to enact the surtax." Yet there are times when the President must galvanize a nation's conscience and will -and this...
...Kennedy), achieved national prominence as a result of his influential role within the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Said a commission staffer: "He was a conscience to all of us and a prod to crystallizing a unifying view." That view, reflected in the commission's report, is not universally applauded-as Harris foresaw. To those who were queasy about castigating racism in American society, Harris snapped: "It strikes me that no one in this country is poor because he is white. But many are poor because they are black...
Conspiracies. His talk was also tough, if somewhat more tempered, on civil disorders. Both directly and by implication, he disputed the President's riot-commission findings. "A major deficiency" of the report, he said, is its "tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream...