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...areas is Humphrey's close tie with labor unions, which count a state membership of 400,000 and claim a "labor vote," including wives, of 800,000. Some 80% of 200 union brasshats in Milwaukee put their names on Humphrey campaign literature, and ex-United Auto Worker Official Sam Rizzo is Humphrey's campaign director. "Will it be their bellies or their church?" cracks Rizzo of Catholic unionists. "We think they'll vote their bellies...
...vulgarity throughout the rest of the West: "If it fails to resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe is drunk with the same poison!" Up stepped Gamesman Potter to tweak Uncle Sam's nose amidst general merriment. He quoted from a manual for U.S. cemetery-plot salesmen: "It's better to have a plot and no need for it than to need it and not have one." He sneered at a claim of California winegrowers that they have never...
...raised eyebrow." By even entertaining the proposal, wrote Gould, "the networks have sat down for the first fitting of a straitjacket. They are confessing that they lack the gumption, economic resourcefulness and pride to lick their public-service problem individually, and that they need the weight of Uncle Sam to spell out specific and statistical criteria of civilized behavior...
Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn will not let TV men cover House hearings, and bars them from his own press conferences. For space reasons, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty keeps TV cameras out of regular briefings in his crowded office, but when he has a visitor he wants to "sponsor"-as the White House press corps puts it-he sets up a special show for TV. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson grants TV newsmen only a brief audience after his regular press conference, insists that they submit their questions in advance and explodes if they try to ring...
Against such adamant Democrats stand most economists and monetary experts, including such Democrats as House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. The plain fact, as they are well aware, is that a boost in Treasury long-term rates is probably the most effective way of holding overall interest rates down. By borrowing exclusively in the short-term market, which is the area where business gets its money for temporary or seasonal needs such as carrying inventories or financing sales, the Treasury has sopped up much of the money normally available. The scramble for the remainder...