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Ungallant Behavior. By contrast, Osmeña, a second-term Senator, is a frail, shy man, who was once accused (though later exonerated) of wartime collaboration with the Japanese. While Osmeña stressed the need for strong ties with the U.S., Marcos, who senses his people's resentment at being regarded by other Asians as the U.S.'s "little brown brothers," emphasized the need for the Philippines to become more assertive and active in Asian affairs. Marcos also managed easily to shrug off Osmeña's charges of corruption in his government. "I would...
...fulsome Wallace worshiper. "We're against third-party futility " Wallace, who is against criticism, had his own way of dealing with the fractious press. The state government controls wholesale liquor distribution in Alabama and, by no coincidence, the six daily newspapers that have been opposing Wallace's second-term bid lost their liquor-advertising contracts last week...
Sometimes his praise of Congressmen who have played a major role in getting a key bill through becomes a bit fulsome. He recently told Florida's second-term Congressman Sam Gibbons, House floor manager for a measure that more than doubled the cost of the President's anti-poverty program: "I've been reading the Congressional Record; I don't see how you did it. You did a magnificent job. Your kids will always be proud of you, and your President is mighty proud...
Texas Democrat John Connolly had his own second-term inauguration moved from Jan. 19 to Jan. 26 so that he would not miss the inauguration of his friend Lyndon Johnson. But when Connally returns from Washington, he faces demanding tasks in pushing through his $68 million college-aid recommendation and in smoothing the way for a hard-to-swallow reapportionment plan that would force dozens of angry rural representatives and senators to give up their seats to the cities...
Jenkins finished high school at 15, junior college at 17, worked for a couple of years, and then entered the University of Texas. Just before he was to graduate in 1939, he quit and went to work for Lyndon Johnson, then a bright young second-term Congressman. He has worked for Lyndon ever since, except for a four-year stint in the Army, which he entered as a private and left as a Quartermaster Corps captain after serving in North Africa and Italy. Even when he ran for Congress, from Texas' 13th District in 1951, it was at Lyndon...