Word: reporter
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Feeling that the commission, which he appointed himself, had slighted the Administration's efforts to help Negroes, Johnson all but ignored the study. He did not invite the commissioners to the White House, as many expected him to, for release of the report, pointedly refrained from commenting on it publicly for three days. When he did bring himself to mention it, before a bankers' meeting on the urban crisis, it was with faint praise. The report "is one of the most thorough and exhaustive studies ever made," said the President. "I don't ask you to embrace...
...rural and Southern areas, New York Democratic Representative Richard McCarthy spoke for the urban sector. "It is my hope," said he, "that the historians will not be looking back at me and the rest of us and declare that we constituted the 'Nero Congress' which took this report and did nothing about...
Most all of the nation's big-city mayors were unreservedly enthusiastic about the report-particularly at the prospect of snagging more federal funds. "I have practically spent our city bankrupt trying to meet the problems in our community," said Newark's Mayor Hugh Addonizio on NBC's Meet the Press...
Some Doubts. Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. was so impressed with the report that he has already ordered the city planning department to analyze it in detail and then assign specific recommendations for action to various departments. The Chicago city council passed a resolution hailing it as an "outstanding report of unparalleled importance," although Mayor Richard Daley was unhappy that it had not criticized strongly enough the "criminal elements" that take part in riots...
Harbingers. Not unexpectedly, the report was most hotly challenged by the nation's police departments, which were specifically condemned by the commission for acquiring automatic and heavy weapons against the possibility of renewed riots this summer. "They still seem to be using the police as whipping boys," complained Miami Police Chief Walter E. Headley Jr. "Why shouldn't police departments be stockpiling lethal weapons? Weapons are being stockpiled in Viet Nam, and this is a war too." Houston Police Chief Herman Short called the commission's criti cism "ridiculous," adding: "The stockpiling of heavy weapons wouldn...