Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Warren Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania-LL.D. To the manor born and to American politics also, your statesmanlike vision has ranged over this country as well as this commonwealth. Your energetic and determined leadership has caught the imagination of your fellow citizens everywhere in the nation...
...saying, Scranton detailed his objections to the bill. He argued for revisions permitting the states much greater power in planning and implementing the anti-poverty program, greater curbs on the role of federal authority, annual appropriations for funds to be made by the Congress instead of "backdoor" financing, and more specific remedies to clear up the hazards of health and economy of Appalachia's coal regions...
When he finished, committee members nearly fell over themselves in praise. "Governor," said Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Clifford Davis, the chairman, "this committee has never had a finer presentation. You have given me a weekend of homework." Pennsylvania Democrat Frank Clark said that Scranton was "the best witness we ever had." Minnesota Democrat John Blatnik congratulated him for his "obviously very thoughtful and carefully worked out" presentation. New Jersey Republican James Auchincloss confessed that he had been "thoroughly confused about the whole program" until Scranton came along and "cut away the cobwebs...
Praise & Hope. Illinois Democrat John Kluczynski was carried away too, and in heaping his thanks onto the pile, took note of Scranton's presidential situation. "I know you're doing a marvelous job as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," Kluczynski gushed, praising with a faint damn, "and I hope you continue to do so for the rest of your term...
Through the laughter, Bill Scranton -whose term as Governor expires in 1967-replied: "That's my hope also...